New data from Nasa spacecraft ‘challenges our understanding of how the solar system works’, scientists announce
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New data from Nasa spacecraft has challenged our understanding of how the solar system works, scientists have announced. The new findings – based on data sent back by the Juno and Cassini spacecraft from giant gas planets Jupiter and Saturn – challenge our understanding of how solar systems form and behave, say researchers. "Although there are puzzles yet to be explained, this is already clarifying some of our ideas about how planets form, how they make magnetic fields and how the winds blow," Stevenson said. Scientists also found from gravity data that inside Jupiter – which is at least 90 per cent hydrogen and helium – there are also much heavier elements, which amount to more than 10 times the mass of Earth.
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