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Global upper-atmospheric heating on Jupiter by the polar aurorae – Nature.com

High-resolution observations confirm that Jupiter’s global upper atmosphere is heated by transport of energy from the polar aurora….

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Jupiter was observed with the 10-m Keck II telescope for five hours on both 14 April 2016 and 25 January 2017 using NIRSPEC (Near-InfraRed Spectrometer14), with the spectral slit aligned northsouth along the axis of planetary rotation (Fig. 1a). Spectral…

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