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


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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