NASA Probes Studying Earth's Radiation Belts to Celebrate Two Year Anniversary
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 01, 2014 - NASA's twin Van Allen Probes will celebrate on Saturday two years of studying the sun's influence on our planet and near-Earth space. The probes, shortly after launch in August 2012, discovered a third radiation belt around Earth when only two had previously been detected. The radiation belts are layers of energetic charged particles held in place by the magnetic field surrounding our plan ... more
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