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Global upper-atmospheric heating on Jupiter by the polar aurorae

Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is considerably hotter than expected from the amount of sunlight that it receives(1–3). Processes that couple the magnetosphere to the atmosphere give rise to intense auroral emissions and enormous deposition of energy in the magnetic polar regions, so it has been presumed...

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Autores principales: O’Donoghue, J., Moore, L., Bhakyapaibul, T., Melin, H., Stallard, T., Connerney, J. E. P., Tao, C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8338559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34349293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03706-w