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Saturnian aurora whose reddish colour is characteristic of ionized hydrogen plasma. Powered by the Saturnian equivalent of filamentary Birkeland currents, streams of charged particles from the interplanetary medium interact with the planet's magnetic field and funnel down to the poles. Plasma scientists suggest that these filamentary currents are associated with double layers whose electric fields accelerate the ions.
Credit: J. Trauger (JPL), NASA. Source
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