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Uncovering the Mysteries of Jupiter's Aurora
The bright emissions above the dark blue background of this ultraviolet image of Jupiter are auroral lights, similar to those seen above the Earth's polar regions. The aurorae are curtains of light resulting from high energy electrons following the planet's magnetic field into the upper atmosphere, where collisions with atmospheric atoms and molecules produce the observed light.
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