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Last post 03-03-2005 11:51 AM by Terry Kucera. 1 replies.

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03-03-2005 9:56 AM

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cynthia m

I know aurora's are caused by solar storms, and have seen pictures of them on other planets like jupiter and saturn. Have they been seen on neptune or uranus?

03-03-2005 11:51 AM In reply to

Terry Kucera
Joined on 02-27-2005
NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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Re: aurora on Uranus & Neptune

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Hi Cynthia
There is a mention of the aurora on Uranus and Neptune here:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/uranus/magnetosphere/U_aurora.html&edu=high
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/neptune/magnetosphere/N_aurora.html
(The image they show is not actually the Earth, though), although I found another place where it said that aurora had only been detected on Earth, Jupiter, Saturn & Uranus.

There are some pictures or plots of aurora on Uranus here, although the article is pretty long and technical.
http://vega.lpl.arizona.edu/~gilda/jovianplanets.html
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaphme/herbert.html

I am not a big expert on this, but I should probably say that I think aurora on Jupiter have more to do with its interactions with its moon Io than the solar wind.

Terry.

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