The storms, which consist of brightenings and broadenings of the dawn flank of an oval of auroral activity that encircles Jupiter's poles, evolve in a pattern surprisingly reminiscent of familiar surges in the aurora that undulate across Earth's polar skies, called auroral substorms, according to the authors.
The new study is...
Jupiter’s ‘Dawn Storm’ Auroras Are Surprisingly Earth-Like
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