New NASA Van Allen Probes observations helping to improve space weather models
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 02:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes, researchers have tested and improved a model to help forecast what's happening in the radiation environment of near-Earth space—a place seething with fast-moving particles and a space weather system that varies in response to incoming energy and particles from the sun.