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Published online 28 February 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020225-6

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Control of Jupiter's radio emission and aurorae by the solar wind

Two space probes lift the lid on Jupiter's magnetosphere.

Even Stanley Kubrick couldn't have directed it better. In the first days of 2001, two spacecraft, Cassini and Galileo, met at Jupiter 400 million kilometres from Earth, to study the mysterious forces emanating from the giant planet.

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