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Originally Posted by 01101001
It doesn't have the info you seek, but might provide pointers in the direction. It's a new NASA page celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jupiter-radio reception.
How One Night in a Field Changed Astronomy
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Fifty years ago, scientists Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin mistook radio signals from Jupiter for a Maryland farmhand driving home after a late date.
It was an easy mistake to make back in 1955 as they set out to map the northern sky using a radio astronomy array in the middle of a rural 96-acre field about 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. Before that fateful night, astronomers had never picked up radio signals from any other planet besides Earth.
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Thanks 01 for that great page. The picture of Jupiter in motion shows the (jet stream?) atmosphere moving in fast bands around the planet, not unlike how the Sun's surface moves in bands, fastest near the equator. What is most puzzling, if this moving picture of Jupiter is right, is the giant red spot, which seems almost stationary against the background of the fast moving upper atmosphere. Shouldn't it move with the planet's spin? Could it be somehow related to the radio emissions from Jupiter, which also has very strong magnetic field and radiation? If the red spot is a fast moving storm, what anchors it? Could the interior of this gas giant, perhaps some sort of solid core, be aligned with the red spot? Can radio map show this? I'm afraid I have too many questions!
Very keen stuff! =D>
30-June-2005, 07:34 AM
Planetary radio emissions
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