{"id":115290,"date":"2020-10-30T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/juno-data-indicates-sprites-or-elves-frolic-in-jupiters-atmosphere"},"modified":"2020-10-30T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T08:46:09","slug":"juno-data-indicates-sprites-or-elves-frolic-in-jupiters-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/juno-data-indicates-sprites-or-elves-frolic-in-jupiters-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"Juno data indicates \u2018sprites\u2019 or \u2019elves\u2019 frolic in Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/juno-data-indicates-sprites-or-elves-frolic-in-jupiters-atmosphere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New results from NASA\u2019s Juno mission at Jupiter suggest that either \u201csprites\u201d or \u201celves\u201d could be dancing in the upper atmosphere of the solar system\u2019s largest planet. It is the first time these bright, unpredictable and extremely brief flashes of light\u2014formally known as transient luminous events, or TLE\u2019s\u2014have been observed on another world. The findings were published on Oct. 27, 2020, in the <i>Journal of Geophysical Research<\/i>: Planets.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists predicted these bright, superfast flashes of light should also be present in Jupiter\u2019s immense roiling atmosphere, but their existence remained theoretical. Then, in the summer of 2019, researchers working with data from Juno\u2019s ultraviolet spectrograph instrument (UVS) discovered something unexpected: a bright, narrow streak of ultraviolet emission that disappeared in a flash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUVS was designed to characterize Jupiter\u2019s beautiful northern and southern lights,\u201d said Giles, a Juno scientist and the lead author of the paper. \u201cBut we discovered UVS images that not only showed Jovian aurora, but also a bright flash of UV light over in the corner where it wasn\u2019t supposed to be. The more our team looked into it, the more we realized Juno may have detected a TLE on Jupiter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New results from NASA\u2019s Juno mission at Jupiter suggest that either \u201csprites\u201d or \u201celves\u201d could be dancing in the upper atmosphere of the solar system\u2019s largest planet. It is the first time these bright, unpredictable and extremely brief flashes of light\u2014formally known as transient luminous events, or TLE\u2019s\u2014have been observed on another world. The findings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}