The auroras can be seen as they sit in the shadow of Jupiter.
. As a result of this violent volcanism, plumes of gas and dust are launched from Io's surface, reaching altitudes of hundreds of kilometers.
"The brightness of the different colors of aurora tell us what these moons' atmospheres are likely made up of," said de Kleer said in the statement."We find that molecular oxygen, just like what we breathe here on Earth, is likely the main constituent of the icy moon atmospheres."
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