Tuesday, October 13, 2026

New Data from the Juno Spacecraft Reveals that Jupiter's Has a Rippling, Wavy Magnetodisk

Schematic of the Jovian magnetosphere showing the Io Plasma Torus (red) and magnetic field lines (blue). Credit: John Spencer

Using observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, an international team led by Shandong University shows that Jupiter's magnetodisk is a rippling structure that rotates with the planet, contrary to what scientists previously thought.



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