Sentences with phrase «intense radiation belts»

Infographic about the intense radiation belts around Jupiter and how Juno is built to withstand them.

This phase of the mission is the most dangerous and nail - biting, due to the intense radiation belts around Jupiter, also the strongest of any of the planets in our Solar System.

It would orbit Jupiter, not Europa, and would dip into the planet's intense radiation belts 45 times to fly just above the moon's surface, retreating each time to safer locales to transmit its data home.

Europa's surface is an extremely hostile environment, as a result of constant exposure to Jupiter's intense radiation belts.

Pioneer 10 also survived and charted the intense radiation belts in the Jovian system, which are 10,000 times stronger than anything measured on Earth.

These particles create intense radiation belts and auroras around Jupiter.

Among its discoveries: an intense radiation belt above Jupiter's cloud tops, helium in about the same concentration as the Sun, extensive and rapid resurfacing of the moon Io because of volcanism and a magnetic field at Ganymede.

Not exact matches

Since the Jovian radiation belt environment is considered to be one of the most intense and hazardous environments in our Solar System, several models to describe it have been developed (e.g. Santos - Costa et al. 2001; Santos - Costa & Bourdarie 2001; Sicard - Piet et al. 2011).

Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!