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Juno's SRU Captures Jupiter Lightning

Juno's Radiation Monitoring Investigation used the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) star camera to collect this high-resolution image Jupiter's northern auroral oval on May 24, 2018 (Perijove 13). Also present in the image are several small bright dots and streaks -- signatures of high energy relativistic electrons from polar beams that are penetrating the camera. The large bright dot in the lower right corner of the image is a flash of Jupiter's lightning. Juno was less than 37,000 miles (60,000 km) from the cloud tops when this SRU image was collected -- the closest view of Jupiter's aurora with a visible light imager. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22968

Date
2018-12-19
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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