Jupiter Storms by Cassini

2001/01/02 Carton Virto, Eider - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Astronomia

The Cassini and Galileo probes were sent by NASA to space to study the planet Jupiter. Galileo has been in orbit since 1995 around Jupiter. Cassini managed to study the planet closely on January 1.

The topics of study are many, but the most significant are storms and those corresponding to the magnetic field. Jupiter's storms can be greater than Earth and last hundreds of years. Cassini's images have revealed that large storms gain energy by swallowing worse storms. According to Dr. Igersoll of the California Institute of Technology, "these observations can be very useful to better understand the Earth's atmosphere." On the other hand, researchers want to know why Jupiter's time is so stable.

Cassini and Galileo have also issued indications of the variability of Jupiter's magnetosphere. On the one hand, radio emissions generated in the region where the solar wind and the magnetosphere of Jupiter collide have been detected. On the other hand, thanks to a special instrument by Cassini, images of the entire magnetosphere have been built, so far impossible.

Cassini does what he had to do on Jupiter. The information is on Earth for researchers to study and probe to Saturn. Arrival in 2004.