KHI at Jupiter (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

KHI at Jupiter

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An SwRI-led team identified intermittent evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, giant swirling waves, at the boundary between Jupiter’s magnetosphere and the solar wind that fills interplanetary space, modeled here by University Corporation for Atmospheric Research scientists in a 2017 GRL paper.

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UCAR/Zhang, et.al.

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