{"id":155137,"date":"2023-01-11T00:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T06:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-find-evidence-for-magnetic-reconnection-between-ganymede-and-jupiter"},"modified":"2023-01-11T00:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T06:22:58","slug":"scientists-find-evidence-for-magnetic-reconnection-between-ganymede-and-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-find-evidence-for-magnetic-reconnection-between-ganymede-and-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find evidence for magnetic reconnection between Ganymede and Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-evidence-for-magnetic-reconnection-between-ganymede-and-jupiter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft flew close to Ganymede, Jupiter\u2019s largest moon, observing evidence of magnetic reconnection. A team led by Southwest Research Institute used Juno data to examine the electron and ion particles and magnetic fields as the magnetic field lines of Jupiter and Ganymede merged, snapped and reoriented, heating and accelerating the charged particles in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGanymede is the only moon in our <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar system<\/a> with its own <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a>,\u201d said Juno Principal Investigator Dr. Scott Bolton of SwRI. \u201cThe snapping and reconnecting of Ganymede\u2019s magnetic field lines with Jupiter\u2019s creates the magnetospheric fireworks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic reconnection is an explosive physical process that converts stored magnetic energy into kinetic energy and heat. Ganymede\u2019s mini-magnetosphere interacts with Jupiter\u2019s massive magnetosphere, in the magnetopause, the boundary between the two regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2021, NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft flew close to Ganymede, Jupiter\u2019s largest moon, observing evidence of magnetic reconnection. A team led by Southwest Research Institute used Juno data to examine the electron and ion particles and magnetic fields as the magnetic field lines of Jupiter and Ganymede merged, snapped and reoriented, heating and accelerating the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}