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The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVS) will take pictures of Jupiter's auroras in ultraviolet, or UV, light. UVS instrument team leader Randy Gladstone explains how seeing Jupiter's auroras in UV helps us understand Jupiter's upper atmosphere and the particles that cause the aurora.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI
Find out more at http://missionjuno.swri.edu and http://www.nasa.gov/juno.
The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVS) will take pictures of Jupiter's auroras in ultraviolet, or UV, light. UVS instrument team leader Randy Gladstone explains how seeing Jupiter's auroras in UV helps us understand Jupiter's upper atmosphere and the particles that cause the aurora.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI