Alas, the miracle could not last. The solar storms were heating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to inflate and increase ...

The discovery of the new belts, made possible by NASA's Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) satellite and published Feb. 6, 2025, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics ...

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 ...