article_snippet: The research was carried out by scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
article_snippet: The new method, though, provides what might be the most accurate reading so far.
article_snippet: The same formula came up with the correct rotation period of Jupiter - which was already known owing to The same formula tilted magnetic field.
article_snippet: But verifying the method with Jupiter allowed scientists to apply the same technique to Saturn.
article_snippet: the method with Jupiter came up with the correct rotation period of Jupiter (pictured) - which was already known owing to the method with Jupiter .
article_snippet: Verifying the method with Jupiter allowed scientists to apply the same technique to Saturn and come up with the revised estimate .
article_snippet: To validate our method our applied the same procedure to Jupiter and correctly recovered Jupiter well-known rotation period.
article_snippet: The study, published online in Nature, could be used in the future to derive the rotation period of other giant planets and planets outside our solar system.
highlights_snippet: The same method correctly calculated the rotation speed of Jupiter .