How Radio Waves Could Help Clear the Way to Space

There is an invisible shell of radiation surrounding our planet that can wipe out satellites and could endanger future explorers. One possible solution to this problem? Good, old-fashioned radio waves. Host: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg, Lehel Kovacs, Bd_Tmprd ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/mission/fun-facts.html https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys655.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/mission/index.html https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2970203 https://eos.org/articles/human-radio-transmissions-create-barrier-to-killer-electrons https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8709912 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/us-tests-ways-sweep-space-clean-radiation-after-nuclear-attack# https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2019.00031/full https://lws-set.gsfc.nasa.gov/documents/DSX_and%20_SET_for_public_release.pdf https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/d/dsx https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/the-beam-plasma-interactions-experiment ------ Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4557 https://images.nasa.gov/details-JPL-20180131-EXPLORs-0001-%2060th%20Anniversary%20Explorer%201%20The%20Beginning%20of%20the%20US%20Space%20Program https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4048 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4241 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4663 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/satellite-with-transparency-3-swewa66cmjn5owmxj https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12589 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324982424_Radiation_Analysis_for_Moon_and_Mars_Missions https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC_69-71212-sRGB https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4048 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/submarine-with-long-shadow-gm680910598-124878311 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/all-side-of-planet-gm671899194-123090267 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20297 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12591 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30470 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13225