NASA Experiment to Track Space ‘Doughnut’ Encircling Earth

NASA is launching a new experiment to track charged particles in a "space doughnut" that encircles our planet. Installed on the exterior of the International Space Station, the new experiment will study the ring current — a doughnut-shaped swarm of particles that can surge when a solar blast hits Earth, disrupting our satellites in space and power systems on the ground. The new experiment, called STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution), will study how particles enter and exit the ring current, helping us better protect our society from the threat of solar storms. Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-storie-mission-to-tell-tale-of-earths-ring-current/ Music credit: "A Gift” by Nicholas Smith [PRS] from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Producer/Editor/: Lacey Young (eMITS) Writer: Lacey Young (eMITS), Miles Hatfield (eMITS), Joy Ng (eMITS) Talent: Alex Glocer (NASA) Videographers: Lacey Young (eMITS), Joy Ng (eMITS) Teleprompter: Rob Andreoli (eMITS) Additional Imagery: J. Goldstein Johns Hopkins APL Sound Effects: Pixabay This video can be freely shared and downloaded at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15011. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15011. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/. If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · X: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc