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Possible Jupiter Sprite
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The south pole of Jupiter is seen in this annotated image of data from the ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. Bands of bright white and blue near the south pole are Jupiter's southern aurora. But researchers also noticed an unusual bright flash of light well away from the auroral region, highlighted here by the yellow circle at about the 10 o'clock position (between longitudinal lines 270 and 240).
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePossible Jupiter Sprite. NASA/JPL, 2020-10-27. Public domain. ID: PIA24050.
