{"id":168465,"date":"2023-07-27T22:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T03:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/giant-swirling-plasma-waves-detected-at-the-edge-of-jupiters-magnetosphere"},"modified":"2023-07-27T22:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T03:26:02","slug":"giant-swirling-plasma-waves-detected-at-the-edge-of-jupiters-magnetosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/giant-swirling-plasma-waves-detected-at-the-edge-of-jupiters-magnetosphere","title":{"rendered":"Giant Swirling Plasma Waves Detected at The Edge of Jupiter\u2019s Magnetosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-swirling-plasma-waves-detected-at-the-edge-of-jupiters-magnetosphere3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giant waves have been found swirling in the plasma at the boundary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-weirdest-facts-about-jupiter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Jupiter<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/heliophysics\/focus-areas\/magnetosphere-ionosphere\">magnetosphere<\/a>, scientists have found.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gEsClWkH2jY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Data from Juno suggests the Jupiter probe regularly dips through these waves, invisible to the naked eye, as it orbits the giant planet. The discovery helps astronomers understand how mass and energy is transferred from the solar wind to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-weirdest-facts-about-jupiter\">Jovian planetary environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, such waves are not unknown in the Solar System. They\u2019re known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_instability\">Kelvin-Helmhotz<\/a> waves, and they occur when there\u2019s a difference in velocity at the boundary between two fluids. They can commonly be seen where wind blows across the surface of lakes and oceans, between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gEsClWkH2jY\">currents in water<\/a>, or even among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/weather\/learn-about\/weather\/types-of-weather\/clouds\/other-clouds\/kelvin-helmholtz\">bands of clouds<\/a> in a planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant waves have been found swirling in the plasma at the boundary of Jupiter\u2019s magnetosphere, scientists have found. Data from Juno suggests the Jupiter probe regularly dips through these waves, invisible to the naked eye, as it orbits the giant planet. The discovery helps astronomers understand how mass and energy is transferred from the solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168465","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}