Unexpected data about Jupiter's magnetic field have been revealed by NASA's Juno space probe. The directions of the gas giant's magnetic field surprise scientists with their irregularities, the red areas represent the areas from which the magnetic field emerges. And the blue ones, where it returns. A map that turns out to be much more heterogeneous than expected.
"Before Juno, we could not distinguish between extreme models of Jupiter's inner rotation, which fit with data collected by Earth-based observations and other deep space missions," according to Tristan Guillot, a Juno co-investigator from the Université Côte d 'Azur, Nice, France. "But Juno is different: it orbits the planet from pole to pole and gets closer to Jupiter than any other spacecraft."
Thanks to the incredible increase in precision brought by Juno's gravity data, we have solved the problem of how the interior of Jupiter rotates: the zones and belts that we see in the atmosphere rotating at different speeds extend to approximately 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers). ).
At this point, the hydrogen becomes conductive enough to be pulled into a nearly uniform rotation by the planet's powerful magnetic field.
