Sentences with phrase «radiation belt environment»

As a result, solar wind does not influence the inner radiation belt environment, which is rather stable.

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).

The Van Allen Probes measure particle, electric and magnetic fields, or basically everything in the radiation belt environment, including the electrons, which descend following Earth's magnetic field lines that converge at the poles.

The radiation belt environments of the outer planets are quite different from the one of the Earth, mainly due to the presence of moons and rings embedded in these systems.

Not exact matches

From a hardware perspective, the Van Allen Probes» most significant challenge was to operate and perform measurements in the severe charged particle environment of the radiation belts, a region of space most spacecraft avoid.

It's very, very difficult to quantify these particle intensities in the harsh environment of the radiation belts, but we are doing just that.

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