NASA image Earth's radiation belts during Juice mission flyby
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2024
From Aug. 19-20, ESA's (European Space Agency's) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission achieved a milestone during a lunar-Earth flyby, executing a double gravity assist maneuver. As the spacecraft passed both the Moon and Earth, its onboard instruments, including two from NASA, recorded the sharpest image ever taken of Earth's radiation belts - regions of charged particles held within Eart
From Aug. 19-20, ESA's (European Space Agency's) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission achieved a milestone during a lunar-Earth flyby, executing a double gravity assist maneuver. As the spacecraft passed both the Moon and Earth, its onboard instruments, including two from NASA, recorded the sharpest image ever taken of Earth's radiation belts - regions of charged particles held within Eart