The discovery of Jupiter’s southern X-ray aurora reveals that it is tellingly different from the northern one, providing important clues to how Jupiter’s polar aurorae are generated.
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Stallard, T.S. The surprising southern aurora. Nat Astron 1, 755–756 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0307-x
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