Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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: science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-storie-mission-to-tell-tale-of-earths-ring-current
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Writer: Lacey Young (eMITS), Miles Hatfield (eMITS), Joy Ng (eMITS)
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Videographers: Lacey Young (eMITS), Joy Ng (eMITS)
Teleprompter: Rob Andreoli (eMITS)
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J. Goldstein
Johns Hopkins APL
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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: 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 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: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15011. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
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