{"id":422,"date":"2003-03-11T04:30:57","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:04","slug":"giant-gas-cloud-for-gas-giant-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"giant gas cloud for gas giant jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A highly sensitive imaging instrument aboard  NASA&#8217;s <em>Cassini<\/em> spacecraft has revealed a massive, doughnut-shaped cloud  of gas around Jupiter. The designers of the instrument &#8212; physicists  from Johns Hopkins University &#8212; reported in the Feb. 27 <em>Nature<\/em> that the  60,000-ton, millions-of-miles-long ring of gas consists of water vapor.  The gas is believed to result from the giant planet&#8217;s intense radiation  bombardment of its moon Europa. The radiation damages the moon&#8217;s icy  surface, kicking up ice molecules, and disperses them along the moon&#8217;s  orbit, leaving the huge ring of gas. The researchers believe the gas  acts as a source and a sink for radiation particles, and shows that  Europa has considerable influence on Jupiter&#8217;s magnetic field. <em>Cassini&#8217;s<\/em> next stop is Saturn, which it will begin orbiting in July of next year. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 3\/11\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly sensitive imaging instrument aboard NASA&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft has revealed a massive, doughnut-shaped cloud of gas around Jupiter. The designers of the instrument &#8212; physicists from Johns Hopkins University &#8212; reported in the Feb. 27 Nature that the 60,000-ton, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}