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Although the alien transmission was eventually rejected as unlikely, NASA ambassador to Utah Patrick Wiggins does not lose hope that there will be evidence to prove that someone is there.
The Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has now seen a unique FM signal, probably from Ganymede. No such detections have been taken before in the largest and most massive of the solar system months, ABC4 News reported.
Juno happened to cross the radio source while traveling through the polar region of the gas giant – a place where the lines of the magnetic field connect to the natural satellite.
In scientific terms, the process is usually referred to as “a decametric radio broadcast”, with its basic principle resembling such an indispensable part of our lives today as wi-fi signal production.
According to Britannica.com, Jupiter’s radio broadcasts were discovered in 1955, and over the past 66 years, more and more discoveries have been made about how signals work.
Despite the temptation to explain the signal to an alien reality, Patrick Wiggins, one of NASA’s ambassadors to Utah, told ABC4 that this “is not ET” saying that “it is more of a natural function.” “A member of the Salt Lake Astronomical Society once built an amateur radio telescope that could detect Jupiter’s electromagnetic radiation,” he said, referring to previous studies.
Ganymede’s first such discovery: What caused the radio broadcast?
NASA researchers believe that the electrons are responsible for the important radio emission that the spacecraft observed for just five seconds while flying at 50 km per second or 111,847 mph. The phenomenon is considered to be relative, albeit a shorter one, to the same physical process that causes auroras to occur on Earth.
Despite ruling out the alien version, Wiggins says he “really thinks life is there,” adding that he “is still waiting for evidence to prove it.”
NASA recently issued a statement saying that Juno, which was scheduled to complete its mission by orbiting Jupiter in July 2021, will enjoy an extension, along with the Mars InSight landing device.
“Senior Review has confirmed that these two planetary science missions will continue to make new discoveries and raise new questions about our solar system,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division.
It will now continue to examine the gas giant and its inner structure, including magnetic fields until September 2025 or the end of its life, whichever comes first.
Late last year, NASA’s Juno, now on its 29th crossing of the planet, discovered that the legendary “hot spots” on the gas giant planet spotted by the Galileo spacecraft in 1995 are wider and deeper than the models. and previous observations found. The results of the research were made public on December 11, during the annual autumn conference of the American Geophysical Union, held online due to the coronavirus pandemic.