This radiation can put astronauts at risk of radiation sickness, degenerative diseases, and an increased lifetime risk of deadly cancers, according to Baylor College of Medicine. "From an ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Toshiba has designed a swimming robot to make its way through deadly radiation in one of Fukushima's flooded and failed reactors. The radiation there is so powerful ...

“It was a race to the finish line,” said Madsen. Europa Clipper’s electronics are protected from Jupiter’s harsh radiation environment within a specially-designed vault. Credit: NASA/JPL ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

134, No. 1038 (2022 August), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) Jupiter’s decimeter-wavelength flux density is dominated by synchrotron emission from magnetically trapped ∼5–50 MeV electrons in the radiation belts.

The mission already carries challenges of sending a satellite 1.8 billion miles in outer space, but the true test comes from the radiation given off by Jupiter and its moons. The space between ...

One of the biggest challenges NASA scientists had to solve before launching the probe was determining how to protect the probe from Jupiter’s intense radiation, Traub said. To get close to ...