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Thursday 21 April 2011

Saturn's Aurora

The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has observed an effect similar to the aurorae on Earth due to a flow of electrons between the planet and its moon Enceladus. This effect was previously observed, again by Cassini, between Jupiter and its moon Io.

See BBC News.

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