Rippling current sheet in Jupiter's magnetodisk generated by discretely distributed magnetic reconnection (IMAGE)

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Rippling current sheet in Jupiter's magnetodisk generated by discretely distributed magnetic reconnection

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Illustration of Jupiter's magnetodisk current sheet (blue surface), deformed into a rippling structure by numerous small-scale magnetic reconnection sites (yellow speckles). Yellow curves trace magnetic field lines linking the reconnection sites to Jupiter's ionosphere.

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