NASA's Juno Mission observed pulsating electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in Jupiter's dawn magnetosphere (IMAGE)

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NASA's Juno Mission observed pulsating electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in Jupiter's dawn magnetosphere

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NASA's Juno Mission observed pulsating electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in Jupiter's dawn magnetosphere that periodically expel energetic heavy ions into the atmosphere, producing stunning X-ray pulsations as captured by ESA XMM-Newton

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YAO Zhonghua's group

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