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Sporadic aurorae observed in East Asia [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2007 All the accessible auroral observations recorded in Chinese and Japanese histories during the interval AD 1840–1911 are investigated in detail. Most of these auroral records have never been translated into a Western language before.
D. M. Willis +3 more
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Io’s Optical Aurorae in Jupiter’s Shadow
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Decline and recovery timescales surrounding eclipse are indicative of the controlling physical processes in Io’s atmosphere. Recent studies have established that the majority of Io’s molecular atmosphere, SO _2 and SO, condenses during its passage ...
Carl Schmidt +15 more
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Letter to the Editor
Two early observations of aurora at low latitudes [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2001 It is the purpose of this paper to present evidence concerning the observation of aurorae in the years 880 AD and 942 AD recorded by Arabs from the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa.Key words. Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (general
J. M. Vaquero, M. C. Gallego
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Some early descriptions of aurorae in China [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 1995 Eight accounts from ancient Chinese literature have been found that describe phenomena in contexts and in metaphors that are distinctly auroral. These accounts relate to personages purported to have lived in the third millennium B.C.
P. K. Wang, G. L. Siscoe
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The Optical Aurorae of Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The tenuous atmospheres of the Galilean satellites are sourced from their surfaces and produced by a combination of plasma-surface interactions and thermal processes. Even though they are thin, these atmospheres can be studied via their auroral emissions,
Katherine de Kleer +4 more
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Auroras on Planets around Pulsars
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 The first extrasolar planets were discovered serendipitously, by finding the slight variation in otherwise highly regular timing of the pulses, caused by the planets orbiting a millisecond pulsar.
Ruchi Mishra +3 more
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