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Dazzling 'dawn storms' that illuminate Jupiter's poles are 10x more intense than the gas giant's regular auroras.
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00:00The gas giant Jupiter has shimmering auroras circling its poles,
00:05and new images from NASA's Juno mission are shining a light on these brilliant displays.
00:10In the auroras, a brief but intense period of brightening sometimes happens in the early morning.
00:16These are called dawn storms, and Juno's images offered a perspective of the storms that scientists had never seen before.
00:24Telescopes on Earth and the Hubble Telescope in space previously spotted Jupiter's dawn storms, but they only captured partial views.
00:33Juno's ultraviolet spectrograph was the first imager to peer down at dawn storms from overhead for eight hours at a time
00:40so that scientists could watch the storms as they formed and grew.
00:44They found that the dawn storms were born in darkness, forming on the planet's nighttime side as isolated glowing spots in auroras.
00:53As Jupiter rotates, the storms travel to the daytime side and glow even brighter, spewing up to thousands of gigawatts of ultraviolet light into space.
01:03And at their brightest, dawn storms produce at least ten times more energy than Jupiter's typical auroras do.
01:23So we want to see a bright and clear skies coming out of various decks in the sky.
01:30And as we look to the stars, we're going to see in 80 Solene from here.
01:32We're now in 80 Solene from here.
01:33We're going to talk about a little bit.
01:34So I'm out.
01:35I want to go back here.
01:36We're going to go back here.
01:37So, I appreciate it.
01:38And as I appreciate it, I'm going to work to make these sights.
01:39So I'll go back here.
01:40I will only take care of what we were going to do.
01:42It's impossible.
01:43Very important.
01:44I think that there are going to be a light on hearing.
01:46So I'm gonna have plenty of One-On- devices
01:47I'm gonna look to that, and I'll go back here.
01:48I'm going to go away from the fact.

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