From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 07:33:17 MDT
I had heard that Galileo had detected a magnetic field, but it didn't
seem very strong. The radiation belt is new to me.
Amara Graps wrote:
>
> I heard some neat news (*) today at the Jupiter conference I'm
> attending (http://lasp.colorado.edu/jupiter/FinalProgram.html) that
> Jupiter's moon: Ganymede has a magnetic field AND a radiation belt
> (the ions and electrons follow their own motion in the gany-magnetic
> field). Neat! Maybe Ganymede has a bow shock and magnetotail too :-)
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