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Saturn's Secondary Aurora: More Information Sunday, June 22, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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A UK team of researchers have discovered a secondary aurora sparkling on Saturn and also started to unravel the mechanisms that drive the process. Their results, recently published in Nature, show that Saturn’s secondary aurora is much more like Jupiter’s in origin than it is the Earth’s.
Aurorae are caused when charged particles stream along the magnetic field of a planet and into its atmosphere. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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