Ganymede aurora study links moon and Earth space weather

London (SDX) Feb 25, 2026

New observations of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies.

A team from the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) at the University of Liege has used NASA’s Juno spacec