{"id":120688,"date":"2021-03-19T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/dark-origins-of-one-of-jupiters-grand-light-shows-revealed-by-nasas-juno-spacecraft"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:22:55","slug":"dark-origins-of-one-of-jupiters-grand-light-shows-revealed-by-nasas-juno-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/dark-origins-of-one-of-jupiters-grand-light-shows-revealed-by-nasas-juno-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Dark Origins of One of Jupiter\u2019s Grand Light Shows Revealed by NASA\u2019s Juno Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-origins-of-one-of-jupiters-grand-light-shows-revealed-by-nasas-juno-spacecraft.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The gas-giant orbiter is illuminating the provenance of Jovian polar light shows.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New results from the Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument on NASA \u2019s Juno mission reveal for the first time the birth of auroral dawn storms \u2013 the early morning brightening unique to Jupiter \u2019s spectacular aurorae. These immense, transient displays of light occur at both Jovian poles and had previously been observed only by ground-based and Earth-orbiting observatories, notably NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope. Results of this study were published March 16 in the journal AGU Advances.<\/p>\n<p>First discovered by Hubble\u2019s Faint Object Camera in 1994, dawn storms consist of short-lived but intense brightening and broadening of Jupiter\u2019s main auroral oval \u2013 an oblong curtain of light that surrounds both poles \u2013 near where the atmosphere emerges from darkness in the early morning region. Before Juno, observations of Jovian ultraviolet aurora had offered only side views, hiding everything happening on the nightside of the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gas-giant orbiter is illuminating the provenance of Jovian polar light shows. New results from the Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument on NASA \u2019s Juno mission reveal for the first time the birth of auroral dawn storms \u2013 the early morning brightening unique to Jupiter \u2019s spectacular aurorae. These immense, transient displays of light occur at both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120688","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}