The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...
Launched in 2012, NASA’s twin Van Allen radiation belt probes have been swinging through the hazardously charged-particle region around Earth while returning valuable scientific data that has ...
Figure 1: Electron acceleration in the outer Van Allen radiation belt. Although the present results may provide a resolution to the debate over which mechanism is the dominant cause of ...
The twin Van Allen Probes have spent more than six years orbiting through Earth's radiation belts. Orbit changes in early 2019 will ensure that the spacecraft eventually de-orbit and disintegrate ...
SpaceX launched the Polaris Dawn mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Press Site on Tuesday morning, a mission into Earth's Van Allen radiation belts in which a four-person crew of civilians ...
By causing electronic malfunctions, “killer electrons,” which move at almost the speed of light inside Earth’s Van Allen ...
In particular, recent work has focused on wave-particle interactions, solar wind-magnetosphere interactions, and energetic particle dynamics in Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts through analysis of ...