When to Use the Io Plasma Torus 3D Explorer - Best Sessions and Limits
Open Io Plasma Torus 3D Explorer when you want to see the torus's three documented radial layers side by side, or watch the real roughly-four-to-one lapping between the torus's 10.07-hour co-rotation and Io's 42.5-hour orbit - not to check Jupiter's current live magnetosphere state or forecast an aurora on Earth.
A layer-by-layer walkthrough
A walkthrough starts with all three layers together for an overview, then isolates the cold disk (under 5.5 Jupiter radii) to see the coolest, innermost gas, steps out to the warm ribbon (5.5-7.6 Jupiter radii) where Io itself orbits and where Juno measured the torus's peak density, and finishes with the extended hot torus (beyond 7.6 Jupiter radii) where electron temperature climbs past 100 eV.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are checking Jupiter's current live magnetospheric state - no real-time spacecraft feed is shown here - or forecasting an aurora on Earth, which depends on solar wind and Earth's own magnetosphere rather than Jupiter's. Use the Aurora 3D Explorer for that. Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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