The solar storm of May 2024 created two extra radiation waists, rehearsing between the two permanent Van Allen waists. One of the new waisted, shown the purple, included a proton population, giving him a unique composition that had never been seen before.
Data collected by a NASA satellite show that the Earth grew two extra radiation belts after a geomagnetic superstemmine in May 2024 – creating a structure never seen before.
In May 2024, the Earth was hit by the last 21 years, after a sunscreen dam has shot down on our planet, disturbing the magnetosphere and causing some of the most vast auroras of the last 500 years.
In a study last week in Geophysical Research: Space Physicsthe researchers analyzed new data collected by the NASA Inner Radiation Belt (CIRBE) satellite, it was found that the Earth developed Two “Radiation Warks” After a superloaded solar storm, he shaken the magnetic field of our planet last year.
The waistlines were created when the particles loaded with the solar explosions were trapped in the earth’s magnetic field. According to NASA, one of the invisible tracks – which is different from any similar structure already seen – can still be there.
As explained by, these ranges are similar to – a pair of permanent breadcrumbs that extend up to 58,000 kilometers from the earth’s surface and help protect our planet from solar wind and cosmic rays. The two new lanes are located in the space between the waist of van Allen interior and the waist of van allen outdoor.
“When we comprised the data from before and after the storm, I said, ‘Wow, this is really new,” said the study’s main author, Xinlin Lian aerospaces and aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in a NASA, quoted by Live Science.
It is likely that the internal waist of radiation still exists
Probably due to the intensity of the solar storm of May, the latest additions to the Earth’s radiation shield survived much longer than most.
The outer waist of electrons disappeared about three months after the storm following a new bombing by a large solar storm in June and another in August, the researchers wrote.
No Entanto, a internal proton waist proved to be much more resistant And “it’s likely to be there today,” wrote NASA representatives.
As Live Science writes today, it is not known for sure why the inner waist remained for so long.
But researchers theorize that it may have been due to their unique configuration or being linked to the increase in the number of solar storms during solar maximum – the most active phase of the solar cycle of about 11 years, which officially began at the beginning of last year.
