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Auroras – the solar system's universal light show (except Neptune... sorry, Neptune)

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Re: Magnetic field ?

...and an atmosphere? I understood that the light show was produced by excitation of gas molecules by the incoming electron stream, so no atmosphere should mean no aurora, or am I whistling in the dark?

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