NASA's Juno Spacecraft Spots Signs That "Sprites" or "Elves" Frolic in Jupiter's Atmosphere

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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Spots Signs That "Sprites" or "Elves" Frolic in Jupiter's Atmosphere

An instrument on the spacecraft may have detected transient luminous events — bright flashes of light in the gas giant's upper atmosphere. New results from NASA's Juno mission at Jupiter suggest that either "sprites" or "elves" could be dancing in the upper atmosphere of the solar system's larges