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Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the North Polar Aurora on Jupiter

Caldwell, J.; Hua, X. -M.; Turgeon, B.

The first direct images of the Jovian aurora at ultraviolet wavelengths were obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera near the time of the Ulysses spacecraft encounter with Jupiter on 8 February 1992. The auroral oval is not uniformly luminous. It exhibits a brightness minimum in the vicinity of longitude 180^circ. In the few ima…