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JUPITER
 Composite
image (click to enlarge) of Jupiter
taken from the Cassini spacecraft on December 7, 2000. Click
here for more.
Cassini
image (click to enlarge) of Jupiter
and it's moon, Ganymede. Ganymede has a tenuous Oxygen atmosphere
and a magnetic core. Click
here for more.
 Hubble
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) ultraviolet image taken
on November 26, 1998. It is a close-up view of an electric-blue
aurora on Jupiter. These emissions, produced by electric currents
generated by Jupiter's large moons, flow along it's magnetic field,
bouncing in and out of the upper atmosphere. Click
here for more.
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