Saturn Lights
SkyandTelescope.com, February 28, 2005

I found this article very informative article, and the information it contained very interesting.

Though article was mainly about Saturn I also learnt quite a bit about Earth’s aurorae from it. The information given here is consistent with what we were told in lectures and so this article has reaffirmed and built on those ideas. Reading it has sparked my interest in the topic; I would love to see an aurora myself someday.

I like the way they have compared Saturn’s aurorae to those on Earth and Jupiter, outlining the similarities and differences between them. I find that this type of comparison (where something new is related to something that you already know a little bit about) helps to build a mental picture of what is happening.

I found this article very easy to read and understand, even though it comes from an astronomy magazine website. Although she is presenting information on a complicated process the author has not used any overly big or technical words so that the concept is easier to grasp. The article is over a page long but it has been broken into short, easy-to-read paragraphs. The pictures catch the reader’s attention and also help to break the article so that it doesn’t seem so long or difficult to read.

I got a lot out of this article, it deepened my knowledge on aurorae and drew my attention to the fact that they also occurred on planets other than Earth (a fact that I previously did not know).

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