{"id":752583,"date":"2023-04-06T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752583"},"modified":"2023-04-06T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:07:00","slug":"jupiters-radiation-belts-and-how-to-survive-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=752583","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter\u2019s radiation belts \u2013 and how to survive them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jupiter_s_magnetic_environment_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Jupiter&#x2019;s magnetic environment\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Juice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Juice<\/a>, is headed to the largest structure in the Solar System \u2013 not the gas giant itself but the mammoth magnetic field that it generates. Its exact size varies with the solar wind, but Jupiter\u2019s magnetosphere is on average 20 million kilometres across, which is about 150 times wider than its parent planet and almost 15 times the diameter of the Sun. But within that field lurks a clear and present danger to space missions \u2013 intense belts of radiation much more energetic and intense than Earth\u2019s own Van Allen belts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Jupiter_s_radiation_belts_and_how_to_survive_them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jupiter\u2019s radiation belts \u2013 and how to survive them<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is headed to the largest structure in the Solar System \u2013 not the gas giant itself but the mammoth magnetic field that it generates.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752584,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=752583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=752583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}