{ "id": 40547, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/storiestorm-time-oringcurrent-imaging-evolution/", "page_type": "Gallery", "title": "STORIE – Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution", "description": "From its perch on the exterior of the International Space Station, NASA’s STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution) mission will study the ring current — a dynamic, doughnut-shaped region around Earth where charged particles flow in opposite directions along magnetic field lines, creating electrical currents. During a solar storm, changes in the ring current can lead to charge buildup on satellites, increased satellite drag, and magnetic fluctuations and induced currents on the ground that can affect pipelines and power lines. With its inside-out view of the ring current, looking outward at it from Earth orbit, STORIE will help answer longstanding questions about how the ring current grows and shrinks and what kind of particles it is made of.\n \nThe STORIE mission is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in May 2026.", "release_date": "2026-04-29T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1157272, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014800/a014874/14874_STORIETVAC-02_searchweb.png", "filename": "14874_STORIETVAC-02_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "From its perch on the exterior of the International Space Station, NASA’s STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution) mission will study the ring current — a dynamic, doughnut-shaped region around Earth where charged particles flow in opposite directions along magnetic field lines, creating electrical currents. During a solar storm, changes in the ring current can lead to charge buildup on satellites, increased satellite drag, and magnetic fluctuations and induced currents on the ground that can affect pipelines and power lines. With its inside-out view of the ring current, looking outward at it from Earth orbit, STORIE will help answer longstanding questions about how the ring current grows and shrinks and what kind of particles it is made of.\n \nThe STORIE mission is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in May 2026.", "width": 180, "height": 320, "pixels": 57600 }, "media_groups": [ { "id": 380193, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/storiestorm-time-oringcurrent-imaging-evolution/#media_group_380193", "widget": "Basic text (large)", "title": "Overview", "caption": "", "description": "From its perch on the exterior of the International Space Station, NASA’s STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution) mission will study the ring current — a dynamic, doughnut-shaped region around Earth where charged particles flow in opposite directions along magnetic field lines, creating electrical currents. During a solar storm, changes in the ring current can lead to charge buildup on satellites, increased satellite drag, and magnetic fluctuations and induced currents on the ground that can affect pipelines and power lines. With its inside-out view of the ring current, looking outward at it from Earth orbit, STORIE will help answer longstanding questions about how the ring current grows and shrinks and what kind of particles it is made of.\n \nThe STORIE mission is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in May 2026.", "items": [], "extra_data": {} }, { "id": 380205, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/storiestorm-time-oringcurrent-imaging-evolution/#media_group_380205", "widget": "Card gallery", "title": "Produced Content", "caption": "", "description": "", "items": [ { "id": 521036, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 15011, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15011/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA Experiment to Track Space ‘Doughnut’ Encircling Earth", "description": "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.", "release_date": "2026-05-01T11:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-05-01T11:05:58.161325-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1203563, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a015000/a015011/ISS_RENA_Magnetic_Field.00001_print_searchweb.png", "filename": "ISS_RENA_Magnetic_Field.00001_print_searchweb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "After being installed on the International Space Station, NASA’s STORIE mission will scan outward, away from Earth, to image energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) from Earth’s ring current. It will view one slice of the ring current at a time, but as it orbits Earth, STORIE will build up a complete view of this invisible, doughnut-shaped band of particles. 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It is covered in blanketing material to protect STORIE from the space environment. After launch, the STP-H11 payload and STORIE will be installed on the outside of the International Space Station’s Columbus module.Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-storie-mission-to-tell-tale-of-earths-ring-current/ || ", "release_date": "2026-05-01T09:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-05-01T09:33:28-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1203556, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a015000/a015013/IMG_3227_print.jpg", "filename": "IMG_3227_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "PhotoCredit: U.S. Space Force ", "width": 1024, "height": 682, "pixels": 698368 } } }, { "id": 520952, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14874, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14874/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "STORIE Thermal Vacuum Test at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "NASA’s STORIE mission, or Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution, has completed its design, build, and testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its six-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). From its unique vantage point on the ISS, STORIE will use its onboard neutral atom imager to provide an “inside out” view of Earth’s ring current – a region of the magnetosphere where energetic particles are trapped in near-Earth space. In addition to answering fundamental questions about the ring current’s intensity and composition, STORIE will also provide a more detailed understanding of how geomagnetic storms affect Earth.From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, STORIE will be shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where it will be integrated onto a pallet to be installed outside the ISS’s Columbus Module. 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