What Causes the Strange Pulses in Saturn's Magnetosphere?
Author(s) -
Sarah Stanley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2016eo047311
Subject(s) - magnetosphere , saturn , magnetosphere of saturn , astrobiology , physics , astronomy , meteorology , environmental science , magnetopause , planet , plasma , nuclear physics
A new model shows that a spiral wave may explain why many phenomena in the gas giant's magnetosphere undergo periodic cycles.
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