NASA's Juno mission has recorded giant swirling waves at the edge of Jupiter's magnetic field, revealing new insight on how solar wind may impact the planet.
Data from Juno's many flybys of Jupiter showed that the spacecraft routinely encounters giant swirling waves, or vortices, at the boundary between the planet's magnetic field and the solar wind, known as the magnetopause. These phenomena, known as Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, occur when a large difference in velocity (speed) forms across two regions in space, according to a statement from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).
