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Last Post 3/3/2005 10:51 AM by Terry Kucera

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3/3/2005 8:56 AM
cynthia m I know aurora's are caused by solar storms, and have seen pictures of them on other planets like jupiter and saturn. Have they been seen on neptune or uranus?

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3/3/2005 10:51 AM
Hi Cynthia There is a mention of the aurora on Uranus and Neptune here: http://www.windows.ucar.e...ra.html&edu=high http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/neptune/magnetosphere/N_aurora.html (The image they show is not actually the Earth, though), although I found another place where it said that aurora had only been detected on Earth, Jupiter, Saturn & Uranus. There are some pictures or plots of aurora on Uranus here, although the article is pretty long and technical. http://vega.lpl.arizona.e...a/jovianplanets.html http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucaphme/herbert.html I am not a big expert on this, but I should probably say that I think aurora on Jupiter have more to do with its interactions with its moon Io than the solar wind. Terry.