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✨🔭 New observations of #Ganymede 🌖reveal a surprising similarity between the #auroras 🌌 on the #SolarSystem's largest #moon and those on #Earth 🌍. A team of space physicists has obtained new results suggesting that the fundamental physical processes that generate auroras are common to different celestial bodies.

🌍 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400351529_Juno's_high-spatial-resolution_ultraviolet_observations_of_Ganymede's_auroral_patches_Constraints_on_the_magnetospheric_source_region

#auroq #SpacePhysics #Jupiter #PlasmaPhysics #Juno #JunoSpacecraft #magnetosphere

Thanks @Umbertogaetani for sharing 🙏 https://mastodon.uno/@Umbertogaetani/116113873863038999

Ansgar Schmidt

Feb 6, 2024

NASA’s Juno Probe Makes Another Close Flyby of Io https://www.universetoday.com/165585/nasas-juno-probe-makes-another-flyby-of-io/ #magmaoceanplanets #junospacecraft #jupitersmoons #iovolcanoes #junomission #magmaocean #featured #jupiter #iomoon #juno #nasa

NASA's Juno Probe Makes Another Close Flyby of Io

The Juno spacecraft has revealed some fascinating things about Jupiter since it began exploring the system on July 4th, 2016. Not only is it the first robotic mission to study Jupiter up close while orbiting it since the Galileo spacecraft, which studied the gas giant and its satellites from 1995 to 2003. Juno is also … Continue reading "NASA’s Juno Probe Makes Another Close Flyby of Io"

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