(1)朱诺号飞船上的极光相机首次拍摄木星夜侧极光过程,揭示了木星最重要的极光现象——木星晨暴的起源和发展阶段,更新了我们对木星极光的认知。传统上认为木星极光跟地球的驱动过程完全不同,而朱诺号飞船的极光拍摄显示了木星的极光晨暴与地球的极光亚暴过程有惊人的相似,从而确认了木星跟地球的磁层空间有重要的相似过程。研究成果发表于AGU Advances(Bonfond et al., 2021),比利时列日大学的Bertrand Bonfond研究员和地质地球所尧中华特聘研究员是共同第一和共同通讯作者,该成果也被美国宇航局NASA作为亮点成果进行报道(链接),朱诺号飞船的首席科学家Scott Bolton在报道中评论:“The dawn storm revelations are another surprise from the Juno mission, which is constantly rewriting the book on how giant planet’s work”。
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