Sentences with phrase «intense radiation fields»

Specifically it covers particle interaction with the metals and alloys used in nuclear reactor cores and hence subject to intense radiation fields.

The infall shock, at the surfaces of the protostar and the swirling nebular disk surrounding it, arrests the inflow, creating an intense radiation field that tries to work its way out of the infalling envelope of gas and dust.

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NASA might choose to extend it, but the spacecraft could still succumb any day to the intense radiation from the deadly halos of high - energy particles trapped around the planet by magnetic fields.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

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.

The peroxide is created by the intense radiation processing of Europa's surface ice that comes from the moon's location within Jupiter's strong magnetic field.

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

Undulators, with small and low field bending, create a narrower radiation cone with more intense beam, with selected wavelengths or harmonics, which can be tuned by manipulating the magnetic field of the device by changing the gap.

But pulsars emit gamma rays, and scientists such as KIPAC's Roger Romani can study these to measure their rotation and understand how high - energy radiation is generated in their intense magnetic fields.

As we still slowly ascended... and the surface temperature of the soil fell to the freezing point the solar radiation became intenser... near the summit the temperature in a copper vessel, over which lay two sheets of plain window glass, rose above the boiling point of water, and it was certain that we could boil water by the solar rays in such a vessel among the snow fields.