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Although the extraterrestrial transmission was ruled out as unlikely, NASA ambassador to Utah Patrick Wiggins does not lose hope that evidence will arrive to prove that someone is there.
The Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has now seen a unique FM signal, presumably originated by the moon Ganymede. No such detections were collected from the largest and most massive moons in the solar system, ABC4 News reported.
Juno crossed the radio source as he traveled through the polar region of the gas giant, a place where magnetic field lines connect to the natural satellite.
In scientific terms, the process is commonly known as “a decametric radio emission,” with its underlying principle resembling such an indispensable part of our lives as the production of wi-fi signals.
According to Britannica.com, Jupiter’s radio broadcasts were discovered in 1955 and, over the past 66 years, more and more has been discovered about how signals work.
Despite the temptation to explain the signal to some alien reality, Patrick Wiggins, one of NASA’s ambassadors to Utah, told ABC4 that this “is not ET” saying that “it is more than a natural function.” “A member of the Salt Lake Astronomical Society built an amateur radio telescope that could detect Jupiter’s electromagnetic radiation,” he said, referring to previous studies on the subject.
Ganymede’s first such finding: What caused the radio broadcast?
NASA researchers believe that electrons are responsible for the landmark radio emission that the spacecraft observed for just five seconds while flying at 50 km per second, or 111,847 mph. The phenomenon is considered to be relative, albeit shorter, to the same physical process that causes auroras to occur on Earth.
While ruling out the alien version, Wiggins says he “does believe there is life,” adding that he “is still waiting for evidence to prove it.”
NASA recently issued a statement stating that Juno, which planned to end its exorbitant mission to Jupiter in July 2021, will enjoy an extension, along with the Mars InSight lander.
“The Senior Review has validated that these two planetary science missions are likely to continue to bring new discoveries and produce new questions about our solar system,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s division of planetary sciences.
It will now continue to examine the gas giant and its inner structure, including magnetic fields until September 2025 or until the end of its life, whichever comes first.
Late last year, NASA’s Juno, now in its 29th step on the planet, discovered that the legendary “hot spots” of the gas giant planet detected by the Galileo spacecraft in 1995 are wider and deeper. than the previous models and observations found. The results of the investigation were made public on Dec. 11 during the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall conference, held online due to the coronavirus pandemic.