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Cassini Finds Mysterious Aurora on Saturn Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. "We've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere," said Tom Stallard, a scientist working with Cassini data at the University of Leicester, England. Stallard is lead author of a paper that appears in the Nov. 13 issue of the journal Nature. (source: jpl.nasa.gov)
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