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It is designed to return data in situ on Jupiter's auroral region and magnetospheric plasmas, by observing electrons and ions in this region. [2] It is primarily focused on Jupiter, but it was turned on in January 2016 while still en route to study inter-planetary space (when it was still several million miles from Jupiter at that time).
The Waves instrument is designed to help understand the interaction between Jupiter's atmosphere, its magnetic field, its magnetosphere, and to understand Jupiter's auroras. [4] It is designed to detect radio frequencies from 50 Hz up to 40,000,000 Hz (40 MHz), [5] and magnetic fields from 50 Hz to 20,000 Hz (20 kHz). [6]
The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the cavity created in the solar wind by Jupiter's magnetic field.Extending up to seven million kilometers in the Sun's direction and almost to the orbit of Saturn in the opposite direction, Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest and most powerful of any planetary magnetosphere in the Solar System, and by volume the largest known continuous structure in the Solar ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope helped researchers chart the electric currents driving Jupiter's aurora.
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A heat wave on Jupiter helped astronomers solve the planet's "energy crisis" mystery. Watch the video of an aurora heating the planet. Skip to main content. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726 ...
JIRAM JIRAM data on Jupiter's southern lights, August 2016 Jovian "Hotspot" in visible (top) and near infrared (bottom) from a previous mission. Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) is an instrument on the Juno spacecraft in orbit of the planet Jupiter. It is an image spectrometer and was contributed by Italy. [1]
Discovery might also help us explain magnetic fields within our solar system