Sentences with phrase «radiation belt during»

These nuclear efforts were instigated by the American government in the hopes to expel the Van Allen radiation belt during the 1960s to better advance space travel.

Not exact matches

Using data from NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission, Raeder and his Ph.D. student Shiva Kavosi (lead author) found that Kelvin - Helmholtz waves actually occur 20 percent of the time at the magnetopause and can change the energy levels of our planet's radiation belts.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire have captured unique measurements of the Van Allen radiation belts, which circle Earth, during an extremely rare solar wind event.

During this interval is when the researchers recorded measurements of the Van Allen radiations belts, and found that the outer belt was not as calm as expected.

«This is the first time detailed measurements of Earth's radiation belts have ever been recorded during such rare conditions,» said Harlan Spence, director of EOS at UNH and a co-author of the study.

Jupiter's radiation belts spiked in radio waves during the impacts and stayed bright for months after.

While EM - 1 will not likely encounter a solar storm, the mission will pass through the Van Allen radiation belt - a zone of energetic charged particles that emanate from solar winds - providing an opportunity to test AstroRad in conditions similar to those found during a solar storm.

When passing through the belt, the radiation sensors in the dummies will be on and will record readings during the passage.

The spatial extent, the energy, and the amount of radiation in the Van Allen belts are controlled by space weather, with large increases in their size and amount of radiation occurring during large geomagnetic storms.