London. Jupiter’s auroras, according to a study published today on “Nature”, behave differently from terrestrial ones. Jupiter’s auroral emissions are much more powerful than the Earth’s, and were thought to have been generated by processes similar to those responsible for the Earth’s strong auroral emissions. The new observations made by NASA’s Juno mission, however, suggest that this is not the case. Among the authors of the article about Nature is Alberto Adriani of INAF IAPS of Rome the principal investigator of the Jiram instrument (Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper, on board Juno, funded by ASI, built by Leonardo-Finmeccanica and operated by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Planetology of INAF). (9Colonne)
