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Originally Posted by renormalised
Yes, it's a big, powerful magnetosphere, but it's still essentially a dipole. If the GRS was "powered" by Birkeland currents as they propose it would no longer be a dipole and there is zip evidence for any Birkeland currents powering anything within the magnetosphere except at the poles and within the sodium torus between Io and the planet. The CMM is also generated at or near the polar regions...here's the quote from Wiki...
That is hardly a semblance of verifiable evidence for anything the EU guys have said on this. It certainly doesn't back up their claim of what formed or "powers" the GRS.
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Yep. Agreed.
The quantum 'leap of faith' they continually request of their readers is always not too large a leap for those not bothering to think through, or investigate the details. This is their market and why it is worthwhile occasionally posting threads here .. to make these issues clearer !
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