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https://archive.fo/6lV5v :

NASA dusts off FORTRAN manual, revives 20-year-old data on Ganymede • The Register

"NASA scientists have made some new discoveries about Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede, thanks to a dedicated team, an elderly VAX machine and 20-year-old data from the long-defunct Galileo probe.", "Fifteen years after Galileo (no, not that one) ended its days with a plunge into the atmosphere of Jupiter, NASA scientists have resurrected the 20-year-old datasets and added more detail to the puzzle of Ganymede's magnetosphere.", "Unlike Earth's aurora, which are the result of solar windsGanymede's appear to come from the plasma surrounding Jupiter.", "Data from Galileo's Plasma Subsystem (PLS), which measured the direction, density and temperature of the plasma, also showed an explosive magnetic event occurring between Jupiter and Ganymede’s magnetic environments.", "Scientists speculate that the brightness of Ganymede's aurora may be caused by plasma flows arising from the magnetic reconnection event."


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