They are also prepared to to conduct several tests from the high altitude, including communication with Starlink internet satellites, and observations of the effects of passing through the Van Allen radiation belt, a highly charged area in space.

Researchers have spied the first radiation belt outside the Solar System.

Those particles are channeled into Earth's radiation belt.

"We are actually imaging the magnetosphere of our target by observing the radio-emitting plasma — its radiation belt — in the magnetosphere," Melodie Kao, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the study's lead author said in a statement.

Mars used to have a radiation belt, but it disappeared over time as its magnetic field all but disappeared.