esahubble_opo9632b October 17th, 1996
Credit: John T. Clarke and Gilda E. Ballester (University of Michigan), John Trauger and Robin Evans (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and NASA/ESA
This ultraviolet images shows how the auroral emissions change in brightness and structure as Jupiter rotates. It also reveals how the magnetic field is offset from Jupiter's spin axis by 10 to 15 degrees.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9632b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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