Juno Reveals Jupiter's Bow Shock Behaves Unlike Earth's

NASA's Juno mission captured the most detailed measurements yet of Jupiter's bow shock, where the solar wind meets the planet's magnetosphere. Unlike Earth, Jupiter slows incoming particles using plasma waves across multiple frequencies and a series of smaller shocklets. The data were collected in December 2024 and published in Nature Communications.

• Juno measured Jupiter's bow shock in unprecedented detail
• Jupiter uses plasma waves at multiple frequencies, not one
• Shocklets slow the solar wind in stages before the main shock
• Data collected in December 2024, published in Nature Communications