Earth grew a pair of extra "radiation belts" after a supercharged ... The two new bands settled in the space between the inner Van Allen belt and the outer Van Allen belt. Like the permanent ...

The outer belt, stretching from roughly ... satellite detected two unexpected radiation belts forming between the existing Van Allen belts. This occurrence had never been observed before.

Figure 1: Electron acceleration in the outer Van Allen radiation belt. Although the present results may provide a resolution to the debate over which mechanism is the dominant cause of ...

Launched in 2012, NASA’s twin Van Allen radiation belt probes have been swinging through the hazardously charged-particle region around Earth while returning valuable scientific data that has ...

When the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, detected the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth in January 1958, Christofilos' ideas seemed even more plausible. The Atomic Energy Commission ...

Electrons in a Van Allen radiation belt (blue) encounter whistler waves (purple) and are sent raining toward the north pole (red). THEMIS satellites are seen near the radiation belt, while UCLA ...

The twin Van Allen Probes have spent more than six years orbiting through Earth's radiation belts. Orbit changes in early 2019 will ensure that the spacecraft eventually de-orbit and disintegrate ...