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November 20, 2008
An image from the Astronomy Picture of the Day----an infrared image by the robotic Cassini spacecraft. The aurora is shown in blue.
Auroras Over Saturn's North Pole
Aurora's are natural light displays in the sky that usually appear appear as a diffuse glow or as "curtains". The Saturnian aurora can cover the entire pole, while auroras around Earth and Jupiter are typically confined by magnetic fields to rings surrounding the magnetic poles.
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