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March 06, 2013

Twin CU-Boulder instruments reveal a third radiation belt can wrap around Earth
Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 06, 2013
With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced the revision of a 50-year-old theory about the structure of the radiation belts that wrap around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads. The Van Allen radiation belts - donut-shaped rings of so-called "killer electrons" that encircle the Earth - were the first discovery of the space age. Data sent back from NASA's Pioneer 3 and ... read more

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