A year from now, NASA will launch an electric spacecraft named Psyche to reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche spacecraft will rely on a solar electric propulsion system to ...
Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter’s intense radiation belts. It's helped Juno survive way beyond its original two-year mission. Jupiter as seen ...
Charged particles from both the Sun and Jupiter itself, as well as from the highly volcanic moon Io, are trapped by the planet's powerful magnetic field and generate huge, intense radiation belts ...
part of Jupiter's radiation environment where nobody has ever been." Juno must also avoid debris as it speeds through a belt of dust and meteorites surrounding Jupiter. "If it gets hit - even by ...
The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth in decades caused the temporary formation of radiation belts around Earth, NASA recently announced. A NASA CubeSat satellite made the discovery, which ...