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Saturday, 9. March 2002

2012, March 9, 2002 at 4:35:00 PM AEDT

Jupiter's X-rays update

As mentioned a few weeks ago, mysterious pulsing x-rays are coming from the North Pole of Jupiter. The official NASA report is very interesting. It has an animation and makes statements like:

The south pole could also be pulsing x-rays (we can't see it very well)
Jupiter's magnetic field is the biggest thing in the solar system -- larger even than the Sun
The 45-minute pulsations are not perfectly regular; the period drifts back and forth by a few percent. It is a natural process

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