Understanding radiation belts also helps researchers study space weather beyond Earth. Other planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn, have intense radiation belts, and comparing them to Earth's could ...

(CNN)-- Scientists don't know why, but one of Jupiter's two main cloud belts has disappeared -- again. Like a wayward pet, the belt has gone missing before and has always returned. "This is a big ...

Jupiter also features intense radiation belts, which tend to limit the lifetime of spacecraft that come within close proximity to the gas giant. Because of this, the below image, captured 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.