The Van Allen belts aren't a problem just for space exploration. They can damage satellites, too, and we're putting up a lot of satellites these days.

Third Van Allen belt found around Earth: Space probes shed new light on hazardous space regions filled with 'killer electrons' Van Allen belts are donuts of electrons and ions that encircle our planet ...

Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. In 2012, observations from the Van Allen Probes showed that a third belt can sometimes appear.

Giant donut-shaped swaths of magnetically trapped, highly energetic charged particles surround Earth. James Van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa, discovered these radiation belts in ...

Mystery Belt. Back in 2013, NASA sent two Van Allen Probes into the Van Allen radiation belts in order to gather more information on the phenomena and on the Earth's magnetosphere.

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The Van Allen Belts are a pair of rings, circling the earth, made up of charged particles. Named for astronomer James Van Allen, these cosmic doughnuts were discovered early in the space age ...

This third Van Allen belt lasted only a few weeks before it vanished, and its cause remained inexplicable. Mann is co-investigator on the NASA Van Allen Probes mission.

NASA's new Van Allen Probes have revealed how quickly the radiation belts around Earth change, and how charged particles there vary in time, energy and spatial distribution.

Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite (launched in 1958, three months after the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik), found a big surprise in space: the Van Allen belts, rings of radiation that to this day are ...