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Giant swirling waves at edge of Jupiter’s magnetosphere

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giant swirling waves at edge of jupiters magnetosphere
giant swirling waves at edge of jupiters magnetosphere

A team has found that NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter’s magnetosphere. The waves are an important process for transferring energy and mass from the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun, to planetary space environments.

Source: ScienceDaily.com