Sentences with phrase «radiation belt created»

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These particles create intense radiation belts and auroras around Jupiter.

Explode nuclear weapons in Earth's magnetosphere to create a long - lived radiation belt that would degrade the missiles.

Mitchell is puzzling over how particles leak through to create this weak but distinct inner radiation belt.

Jupiter has some serious radiation belts for Juno to contend with, thanks to the massive magnetic field created by the gas giant.

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

While completing their mission, the probes noticed that the outward extent of this newly created sphere stretches almost precisely to the inner edge of the Van Allen radiation belts (a layer made up of charged particles that is held in place by the planet's magnetic fields).

Unbeknownst to even NASA, the Air Force had conducted a high - altitude nuclear test, which created a radiation belt around Earth for a bit of time [source: Nelson].

When the VLF bubble interacts with the radiation belts, it creates the barrier observed.

In that view, this electrical energy is transferred from space to the Van Allen radiation belts, where it awaits discharge to the planet's surface, and eventually to the core, in the process creating the magnetic and electric fields which we observe to be affiliated with the Earth.