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VIDEO: A study conducted by researchers from the Laboratory for Planetary and Atmospheric Physics of the University of Liege, shows for the first time global views of a dawn storm, a. view more
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The storms, which consist of brightenings and broadenings of the dawn flank of an oval of auroral activity that encircles Jupiter s poles, evolve in a pattern surprisingly reminiscent of familiar surges in the aurora that undulate across Earth s polar skies, called auroral substorms, according to the authors.
The new study is the first to track the storms from their birth on the nightside of the giant planet through their full evolution. It was published today in