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Juno spacecraft finds auroral ‘footprints’ of Jupiter’s moon Callisto for 1st time

Juno spacecraft finds auroral ‘footprints’ of Jupiter’s moon Callisto for 1st time

In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly detected the auroras of Jupiter’s moon Callisto. This discovery completes the set of auroral signatures we have from all four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Like Earth, Jupiter experiences brilliant auroras around its poles — but something funky happens …

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