Today, we call these lights the aurora ... s upper atmosphere. Those collisions excite the atmospheric particles, which then release light as they “relax” back to their unexcited state. The ...

The most common aurora color is green. Green auroras are typically produced when charged particles collide with high concentrations of oxygen molecules in Earth's atmosphere at altitudes of around ...

as well as the effect that charged particles from Io and the other moons have on Jupiter's atmosphere. More information: J. D. Nichols et al, Dynamic infrared aurora on Jupiter, Nature ...

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