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Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Generates Incredible Magnetic Waves
Gizmodo ^ | 08/06/2018

Posted on 08/07/2018 10:12:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft surprised scientists when it revealed that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede generated its own magnetic field. But new research shows Ganymede also creates incredibly powerful waves that rocket particles to enormous energies.

Scientists revealed these huge electromagnetic waves while studying old data from Galileo, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. The observations show another wild way that a moon can interact with the magnetic field of its planet.

Jupiter’s radius is around 11 times that of Earth, but it is perhaps 20,000 times more magnetic. This generates an intense radiation environment around the planet.

Typically, these waves around Jupiter have an amplitude a little higher than that of the magnetic field produced by the human brain. But when Galileo passed by the 3,274-mile-wide moon Ganymede, the wave height spiked a million times, to perhaps the strength of a magnetic field produce by a kitchen microwave.

As to where the waves come from, the interaction between Ganymede and Jupiter could cause an uneven distribution in electrons surrounding the moon. This could supply the necessary energy to generate the large waves in the magnetic field. But it’s more complex than that, according to the paper published in Nature Communications.

Moons without magnetic fields might make these kinds of waves also, though Jupiter’s moons Io and Callisto don’t. There are a host of different variables that could determine whether the waves exist and how big they’ll be, but determining all that will be up to future study.

U.S. and Europe both have plans to continue sending probes to the planet, and the accelerated particles could wreck manmade technology.

These results could also help scientists better understand the behavior of powerful magnetic fields and plasmas in general. Perhaps studying the radiation around Jupiter could help scientists find Jupiter-like exoplanets.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; callisto; catastrophism; europa; ganymede; ganymedehypothesis; io; jupiter; magnetic; moon; science; tedholden
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1 posted on 08/07/2018 10:12:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t I read once that Jupiter is a small star that never erupted into flame?


2 posted on 08/07/2018 10:15:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: BenLurkin

So this is a class 9 force screen? Zargon manufacture?


3 posted on 08/07/2018 10:16:45 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My back of the envelop calculations confirm that.


4 posted on 08/07/2018 10:17:11 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Didn’t I read once that Jupiter is a small star that never erupted into flame?”

Hey, this isn’t the Kimchi thread!


5 posted on 08/07/2018 10:18:00 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows what's right and he keeps on coming.)
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To: BenLurkin; 1FreeAmerican; AFreeBird; A. Patriot; AndrewC; antonia; aristotleman; Art in Idaho; ...
Astronomers and Gravity Cosmologists are once again shock, surprised and incredulous at something Electric Universe Cosmologist have known and predicted. . . Jupiter has strong magnetic waves. . . oh, my!—Electric Universe PING!


Clear Example of a Birkeland Current
"Z" Pinch with Symmetrical Plasmids
seen in Hubble Telescope View of
The Twin Jet Nebula
ELECTRIC UNIVERSE PING!

If you want on or off the Electric Universe Ping List, Freepmail me.

6 posted on 08/07/2018 10:19:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, that is a theory. But in order to have been a star Jupiter’s mass would have had to be much more massive then it currently is. At least a hundred thousand times more massive.


7 posted on 08/07/2018 10:24:11 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: BenLurkin

What about Europa? They left out Europa, the one moon of Jupiter we can’t go to.

Is there life there? Movie fans want to know more about it.


8 posted on 08/07/2018 11:48:34 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.”
I dunno, I don’t think the great space coffee table is serious.
I’ma chance it.


9 posted on 08/08/2018 12:29:17 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks BenLurkin .


Jupiter’s moon Ganymede generated its own magnetic field. But new research shows Ganymede also creates incredibly powerful waves that rocket particles to enormous energies.

10 posted on 08/08/2018 1:37:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Mass of the Planets and the Sun
http://www.smartconversion.com/otherInfo/Mass_of_planets_and_the_Sun.aspx


11 posted on 08/08/2018 1:48:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: BenLurkin
I've known about this since 1968.


12 posted on 08/08/2018 1:49:44 AM PDT by Jim Noble (p)
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1.8986/.0059736=317.83179322 (Earths to make one Jupiter)

1.9891/.0018986 1047.6667018 (Jupiters to make one Sun)


13 posted on 08/08/2018 1:51:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

If there is it’s got to be way down below the surface and living in very, very cold water. Europa’s an ice ball.


14 posted on 08/08/2018 2:26:09 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: BenLurkin

How do we know that they’re not credible magnetic waves? Surely, they’re not liars.


15 posted on 08/08/2018 2:35:39 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: jmacusa

Jupiter’s mass is 1/1047 that of the sun. If it were 100,000 times more massive it would be 100 times more massive than the sun, and would be a super giant star.

In order to be a star, to fuse hydrogen into helium, requires enormous pressure and heat. Fusion only occurs at the very center of the sun, heat is transferred by convection to the surface and radiated away. The specific power generation of the sun is about the same as a bale of rotting hay, about one half watt per cubic meter. The sun just does it longer - for billions of years - and with a lot more cubic meters.


16 posted on 08/08/2018 3:03:31 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Molon Labe)
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To: jmacusa

Off by a few orders of magnitude. The minimum mass for a red dwarf is around 80 Jovian masses. That is the minimum to start the p-p fusion chain. For brown dwarves of 13 to 80 Jovian masses, one might find deuterium burning or lithium burning, but that does not last long. The energy currently given off by Jupiter is largely due to gravitational contraction and isotope decay.


17 posted on 08/08/2018 3:21:43 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: BenLurkin

Ganymede 1:00 position

http://www.spacesounds.com/home/index.html


18 posted on 08/08/2018 4:42:14 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds familiar...

19 posted on 08/08/2018 5:01:09 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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To: familyop

Maybe they are positive waves?


20 posted on 08/08/2018 5:25:29 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just call me Angelo or babe.)
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