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Proton Aurora Target Name:   Earth's Aurora Spacecraft:   IMAGE Produced by:   NASA Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Date Released:  31 May 2000 Related Document IMAGE Spacecraft Takes First Pictures of Electrified Gas Surrounding Earth Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size si12enh.jpg JPEG 512 x 472 39K si12enh.jpg JPEG 1024 x 943 102K si12enh.tif TIFF 1024 x 943 818K Auroral emissions are excited principally by electron precipitation. We know that some of the auroral emissions are produced by precipitating protons but up until now have never observed a "proton aurora" from space. IMAGE is the first spacecraft to measure the proton aurora.

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