Solar Energetic Particles, Solar Modulation and Space Radiation: New opportunities in the AMS Era #3

Session

Late Monday Afternoon

23 Apr 2018, 15:15

Embassy of Italy

3. Multi-Year Measurements of Radiation Belt Electrons: Acceleration, Transport, and Loss

Prof. Daniel Baker (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.)

23/04/2018, 15:15

A principal goal of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission was to develop a much deeper understanding of the structure and dynamics of Earth’s radiation belts. Almost immediately after the late-August 2012 launch of the dual RBSP spacecraft into their highly elliptical orbits, it was discovered that a third Van Allen belt (or “storage ring”) of highly relativistic electrons can exist...

17. Insight for Deep-Space (Mars) Mission Planning using Recent Measurements from RAD on the Mars Science Laboratory

Don Hassler (SwRI)

23/04/2018, 15:45

The space radiation environment is one of the outstanding challenges of a manned deep-space mission to Mars. To improve our understanding and take us one step closer to enabling a human Mars to mission, the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been characterizing the radiation environment, both during cruise and on the surface of Mars for the past 5+...