File:Jupiter xray ill.jpg

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English: Jupiter shows intense X-ray emission associated with auroras in its polar regions (Chandra image on left). The accompanying schematic illustrates how Jupiter's unusually frequent and spectacular auroral activity is produced. Jupiter's strong, rapidly rotating magnetic field (light blue lines) generates strong electric fields in the space around the planet. Charged particles (white dots), trapped in Jupiter's magnetic field, are continually being accelerated (gold particles) down into the atmosphere above the polar regions, so auroras are almost always active on Jupiter. Observation period: 17 hrs, 24-26 Feb 2003
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Source http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/jupiter/jupiter_xray_ill.jpg
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Author X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSFC/R.Elsner et al.; Illustration: CXC/M.Weiss
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Electric voltages of about 10 million volts, and currents of 10 million amps - a hundred times greater than the most powerful lightning bolts - are required to explain the auroras, which are a thousand times more powerful than those on Earth.

On Earth, auroras are triggered by solar storms of energetic particles, which disturb Earth's magnetic field. As shown by the swept-back appearance in the illustration, gusts of particles from the Sun also distort Jupiter's magnetic field, and on occasion produce auroras.

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