Sentences with phrase «into radiation belts»
It also pumps energy into radiation belts and Earth's atmosphere, disrupting satellite electronics and power systems.
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Jupiter's radiation belts prevent ground - based telescopes from seeing deeper, and so scientists are relying on Juno's daring, swooping polar orbit to provide one of the first views into the deep underworld of Jupiter's atmosphere.
«We are now going into what historically has been the most energetic part of the solar cycle for the radiation belts.
The radiation belts are two donut - shaped regions of highly energetic particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field — the inner, located just above our atmosphere and extending 4,000 miles into space; and the outer, from 8,000 to 26,000 miles out — and are named for their discoverer (as are the probes), the late James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa.
«It is plausible that the ARMAS results are related to enhanced loss of radiation belt particles from the magnetosphere into the middle and lower atmosphere,» he says.
Over time, the blast would feed additional charged particles into the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth, ruining the operation of most satellites in low Earth orbit within a month, O'Hanlon argues in written testimony.
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.
Several modelling studies have been performed to describe the electron radiation belts taking into account mainly the radial diffusion processes (Hood 1983, Santos - Costa et al. 2003).
``... being considered by the US Air Force and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,... using very low frequency radio waves to flush particles from [the Van Allen radiation] belts and dump them into the upper atmosphere over either one or several days.
With Juno, we will investigate the unknowns of Jupiter's massive radiation belts to delve deep into not only the planet's interior but into how Jupiter was born and how our entire solar system evolved.»
Office Premise: A routine scientific expedition to the North Pole turns into a race to save all mankind when a radiation belt in space causes a fiery inferno on Earth.
``... being considered by the US Air Force and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,... using very low frequency radio waves to flush particles from [the Van Allen radiation] belts and dump them into the upper atmosphere over either one or several days.