Projection of the Map of Jupiter's Ionosphere, Allowing Us to Look at the Ionosphere as the Planet (VIDEO)
Caption
This movie shows a projection of the map of Jupiter's ionosphere, allowing us to look at the ionosphere as the planet rotates as it would be seen from Earth. The map begins with Jupiter's bright aurora showing, but as the planet rotates, we show weaker and weaker emission, so that these aurora saturate, allowing us to see the much weaker features near the equator. We highlight the Great Cold Spot our team previously discovered, as well as the location of Jupiter's magnetic equator, but the map also shows a wide variety of other bright and dark regions.
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University of Leicester
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