Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is 1,300 times the size of the Earth but does not carry it as it should or as scientists predict. MRI research suddenly found the answer as to why gas planets are magnetic.
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Jupiter as seen by the “Cassini” space probe. This is the most detailed global color photograph of Jupiter ever collected. It is extracted from several high-resolution images taken just over a day before Cassini’s closest approach to Jupiter.
Jupiter, an uprooted planet
Since its discovery, Jupiter has been a surprise to scientists. The fifth planet from the Sun descends the largest planet in the solar system and is twice the size of all the planets combined.
According to NASA, the planet’s most iconic shores and strips are like cold clouds, windmills and ammonia that float in the atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. At the same time, the Great Red Spot is a massive storm larger than Earth itself, raging for hundreds of years.
NASA’s Juno Orbiter is currently exploring the vast planet.
Compared to Earth, Jupiter’s magnetic field is 20,000 times stronger.
So the question remains, how does the gas giant create strong attractions?
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Unravels the mystery of the gas planet
Professor Eduard Chekmenev, a senior MRI researcher from Wayne University, Michigan, conducted the experiments in a long test tube from space academics.
His laboratory is currently investigating nuclear magnetic resonance. During the tests, he noticed a specific property of dihydrogen and began to discover how it releases energy and how it works. The conclusions are similar to the wonders seen in Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.
According to the laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Jupiter’s magnetic field is strong enough to avoid a solar wind 3 million kilometers before it reaches the planet.
The magnetic field interacts with the solar wind, where Jupiter generates most of the charged particles. The particles then zip on magnetic lines and release energy across the electromagnetic spectrum. The energy released by charged particles can be measured in various forms of light, such as x-rays, ultraviolet, gamma rays, and visible light.
The radiowaves were recently discovered from the moon of Ganymede by NASA’s Juno spacecraft that is currently studying Jupiter.
The question now is, how do gas giants create strong magnetic fields without the presence of metals?
Theory suggests that Jupiter creates enough pressure to form metallic hydrogen – a phenomenon where common elements behave like metal. It takes a lot of pressure and the theory of metabolic hydrogen to explain how gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn emit strong magnetic fields.
Neptune and Uranus, on the other hand, are undoubtedly smaller planets that cannot show great weight, but both exhibit magnetic fields.
This is where Professor Chemenev’s discovery is relevant. According to reports to ABC4, dihydrogen can take two forms depending on how a proton nuclei spins.
Thus, parahydrogen can be used to stimulate and create greater nuclear magnetization.
“The magnetization of nuclear spins can be enhanced by many orders of magnitude, and strengthens the MRI signal. As a result, an MRI scan of highly magnetic differences can be performed in just seconds” Chekemenev explains tell ABC4.
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