Radio Bursts From Jupiter

Radio emission observed coming from the planet Jupiter. The short(S) bursts sound like a plastic bag blowing in high wind.

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• radio
• astronomy
• jove
• jupiter
• short
• burst

[bradmann85]

i get these same burst on my cb radio sometimes when radio traffic is dead. i have a 5ft fiberglass whip antenna. i usually get this kind of signal near the late afternoon hours.

[truemartian]

@bradmann85 Could be the sun actually. Jupiter is not audible during daylight hours because the ionosphere is too ionized by UV from the sun. You also need at least two half wave dipoles to hear Jupiter properly.

[kb7clx]

@truemartian Really? When the sunspot cycle is in a low?

[truemartian]

@kb7clx No, you're much more likely to hear solar bursts during solar maximum than minimum.

[guneetify]

@bradmann85 can u tell me how to make an antenna for the radio jove please

[truemartian]

@guneetify You can order the antenna kit from the Radio Jove Project home page. Simply type Radio Jove in your search engine. There are even construction manuals for the project, including the antennas, in the help section.

[KarbineKyle]

Nice Video! Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest region in the Solar System, except for the Sun's magnetosphere. Jupiter's magnetosphere actually stretches all the way to Saturn, and has an infulence on all the objects in the Solar System. It's emissions can actually be found and heard when tuning into the radio sometimes. Venus and Mars have almost no magnetosphere because there cores have cooled down, and Venus rotates extremely slow, retrograde actually. It's day is longer than its year!

[bradmann85]

@truemartian cool thanks.

[BosnianMilitia]

@truemartian Thanx, I will

[truemartian]

@BosnianMilitia You can find more samples of radio bursting on the NASA Radio Jove website. Just last night radio astronomers around the world reported some bursting.