How Other-Worldly Auroras Help Us Explore the Galaxy
Earth’s northern and southern lights are some of the most magical sights on our planet. But they’re not unique to Earth, and aside from being beautiful, auroras can also give us unusual insights into these other worlds. Magnetic words: https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow/products/scishow-magnetic-words SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.bu.edu/csp/uv/proton/proton_publi_abs.html https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JA027140 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/97JA01662 https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2019/mars-proton-aurora-common https://phys.org/news/2019-12-martian-aurora-climate-clues.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2019/12/17/the-aurora-of-mars-tell-the-story-of-how-a-wet-world-became-dry/#53b8cb97be6f https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasa-s-hubble-observations-suggest-underground-ocean-on-jupiters-largest-moon https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/ganymede/in-depth/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jupiter-s-moon-ganymede-has-a-salty-ocean-with-more-water-than-earth/ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2014JA020778 https://www.space.com/25720-jupiter-moon-ganymede-ocean-life.html https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/414/3/2125/1036950 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/4/110421-auroras-aliens-new-planets-search-radio-ras-space-science/ https://astronomy.com/news/2020/03/hunting-aurorae-astronomers-find-an-exoplanet-using-a-new-approach https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1011-9 https://sci.esa.int/web/cluster/-/43018-beamed-radio-emission-from-earth Images: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1083.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/old-data-new-tricks-fresh-results-from-nasa-s-galileo-spacecraft-20-years-on https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2018/mars-proton-aurora https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12986 https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/6453/valles-marineris-hemisphere-enhanced/ https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/7000/artists-concept-of-maven-observing-aurora-on-mars/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structure_of_the_magnetosphere_LanguageSwitch.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganymede_diagram.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:15-033i1-JupiterMoon-Ganymede-Aurora-20150312.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganymede_diagram.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Wind_Strips_the_Martian_Atmosphere.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86823352 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/224426.php https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/aurora-borealis-northern-lights-southeast-alaska-gm1177141282-328505123 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/aurora-borealis-with-silhouette-love-romantic-couple-on-the-mountain-honeymoon-gm1070065352-286270943 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-blue-background-backdrop-hand-paint-stain-gm1283060368-380606623 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/aurora-borealis-nature-landscape-at-night-gm1169366970-323231925 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vla-radio-telescope-searching-gm1182286954-331928920 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/southern-lights-gm641712994-116286227 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/alien-planet-in-outer-space-lens-flare-nebula-star-field-gm1207126985-348412397 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/northern-lights-aurora-borealis-vector-isolated-illustration-gm1177001210-328395015
