UNIVERSITY
ASTRONOMY
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Planetary Atmospheres and Space Science
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We are a research group at Boston University studying the Aurorae on Jupiter and Saturn. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allows us to take beautiful images of the Aurorae... |
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Auroras are light emissions phenomena due to energetic particles precipitating into the upper atmospheres. |
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The project will consist of a concentrated series of HST observations coordinated with planetary spacecraft and other earth-based observations in 2007. The temporal resolution of the measurements combined with the correlation of in situ observations will give us more insight about the phenomena at stake. |
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The HST observations will take place simultaneously with other in situ observations by Cassini and New Horizon. We expect to also compare with observations from ground-based telescopes at IR and radio wavelength. These combined observations will provide more information abour the correlation between light emissions and solar wind parameters. |
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Find all our data and pictures in this section... to be developed, check back in Jan. 2007. |
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