NASA's Juno probe has spotted unusual waves flanking Jupiter's magnetosphere.
Montgomery added: “Juno observed these waves during many of its orbits, providing conclusive evidence that Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities play an active role in the interaction between the solar wind and Jupiter.”
Way back in 1868, a German biologist and physicist, Hermann von Helmholtz, first found these instabilities. In general, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities may be seen in the atmospheres of several planets, including ours, in the cloud formations on Earth. It also likely occurs in the massive Red Spot on Jupiter, as well as the atmosphere of the Sun.We use the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability condition with particle and magnetic field observations from the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment and MAG on Juno along the dawn flank of Jupiter's magnetosphere.
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