Jupiter’s magnetic field revealed

Max Planck researchers penetrate with computer simulations deep into the interior of the giant planet Jupiter.
Superlatives are the hallmark of the planet Jupiter. Thus, the magnetic field of the largest member is about ten times stronger... than that on Earth, and it is in the solar system at the cloud top by far the most extensive magnetosphere around a planet. Puzzling it seemed a long time that this field has a similar structure as that of our planet, although both celestial bodies in the interior are constructed entirely differently. A team under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen have now succeeded with the most detailed computer simulations to explain the origin of the magnetic field deep within the gas giant.