Jupiter

GeoTalk: meet Georgia Moutsiana, researcher of Jupiter’s magnetosphere!

Simon Clark December 2, 2024

Georgia Moutsiana

Hello Georgia – welcome to GeoTalk! Could you tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your background? Thank you, Simon! I’m Georgia Moutsiana, a space scientist and PhD candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. My research focuses on understanding the processes that accelerate and transport charged particles in planetary magnetospheres. My key message is th ...[Read More]

Tectonics on Ice…. learning about Jupiter’s Icy Moons and the JUICE mission.

Hazel Gibson January 25, 2023

Image credit: USGS Astrogeology Science Center/Wheaton/NASA/JPL-Caltech

In April this year a new mission is being launched by the European Space Agency, called JUICE, which stands for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. This mission aims to make detailed observations of the giant gas planet Jupiter and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa – with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. But beyond the excitement of a ne ...[Read More]

NASA’s Juno mission reveals Jupiter’s magnetic field greatly differs from Earth’s

Keri McNamara July 18, 2018

The Juno probe flew 2.8 billion kilometres between its launch from earth and insertion into orbit around Jupiter. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA scientists have revealed surprising new information about Jupiter’s magnetic field from data gathered by their space probe, Juno. Unlike earth’s magnetic field, which is symmetrical in the North and South Poles, Jupiter’s magnetic field has startlingly different magnetic signatures at the two poles. The information has been collected as part of the Juno program, NASA’s latest mission to unrav ...[Read More]

April GeoRoundUp: the best of the Earth sciences from the 2018 General Assembly

Olivia Trani May 4, 2018

Scientists present research findings at a press conference at the 2018 General Assembly (Credit: EGU / Keri McNamara)

The 2018 General Assembly took place in Vienna last month, drawing more than 15,000 participants from 106 countries. This month’s GeoRoundUp will focus on some of the unique and interesting stories that came out of research presented at the Assembly. Mystery solved The World War II battleship Tirpitz was the largest vessel in the German navy, stationed primarily off the Norwegian coastline as a fo ...[Read More]