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On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight – EurekAlert
Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the sources of radiation events that could impact human space-flight operations. Relativistic Electro…
IMAGE: Plasma waves observed by the Arase satellite (left) and count rate of MeV electrons observed with the CALET detector on the ISS (right).
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Credit: Ryuho Kataoka et al., 2020
Scientists have made significant progress in understanding the sources of radiation events that could impact human space-flight operations. Relativistic Electron Precipitation (REP) events are instances when high energy electrons move through areas of space at significant fractions of the speed of light. …
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