Saturn’s auroras may explain the planet’s weirdly hot upper atmosphere
Data from Cassini’s final orbits could solve the gas giant’s ‘energy crisis’
![Saturn’s northern aurora](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/040320_LS_saturn_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Saturn’s northern aurora (shown glowing in ultraviolet light this composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope) and its southern counterpart could warm the planet’s upper atmosphere.
Hubble, NASA, ESA, A. Simon/GSFC, the OPAL Team, J. DePasquale/STScI, L. Lamy/Observatoire de Paris