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Van Allen Belts

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NASA's Van Allen Probe A Is Set To Crash Back Down To Earth Today In Uncontrolled ReentryTwo spacecraft are seen above the earth. They are boxy with solar panels arranged in a cross like shape.

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NASA's Van Allen Probe A Is Set To Crash Back Down To Earth Today In Uncontrolled ReentryTwo spacecraft are seen above the earth. They are boxy with solar panels arranged in a cross like shape.
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NASA's Van Allen Probe A Is Set To Crash Back Down To Earth Today In Uncontrolled Reentry

clock-iconMarch 10, 2026

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Humans Have Accidentally Created A Barrier Around The Earththe belts are represented as a vast, semitransparent rainbow donut surrounding the planet with a section cut away.

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Humans Have Accidentally Created A Barrier Around The Earththe belts are represented as a vast, semitransparent rainbow donut surrounding the planet with a section cut away.
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Humans Have Accidentally Created A Barrier Around The Earth

clock-iconDecember 20, 2025
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Uranus May Not Be So Weird After All – Voyager Just Caught It During An Unusual Gust Of WindUranus in false color, imaged by Voyager 2 in 1986.

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Uranus May Not Be So Weird After All – Voyager Just Caught It During An Unusual Gust Of WindUranus in false color, imaged by Voyager 2 in 1986.
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Uranus May Not Be So Weird After All – Voyager Just Caught It During An Unusual Gust Of Wind

clock-iconDecember 4, 2025
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The Gannon Storm: What NASA Learned From The Biggest Geomagnetic Storm In Over 2 DecadesDiagram of a geomagnetic storm hitting Earth.

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The Gannon Storm: What NASA Learned From The Biggest Geomagnetic Storm In Over 2 DecadesDiagram of a geomagnetic storm hitting Earth.
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The Gannon Storm: What NASA Learned From The Biggest Geomagnetic Storm In Over 2 Decades

clock-iconMay 12, 2025
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Giant Solar Storm Gave Earth A New Proton Belt, NASA's CubeSat Mission FindsEarth's radiation belts, including two temporary belts.

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Giant Solar Storm Gave Earth A New Proton Belt, NASA's CubeSat Mission FindsEarth's radiation belts, including two temporary belts.
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Giant Solar Storm Gave Earth A New Proton Belt, NASA's CubeSat Mission Finds

clock-iconFebruary 10, 2025
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Sharpest Image Of Earth's Radiation Belt Taken By NASA Shows Hot Plasma Encircling The PlanetEarth's radiation belt, as imaged by JUICE.

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Sharpest Image Of Earth's Radiation Belt Taken By NASA Shows Hot Plasma Encircling The PlanetEarth's radiation belt, as imaged by JUICE.
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Sharpest Image Of Earth's Radiation Belt Taken By NASA Shows Hot Plasma Encircling The Planet

clock-iconOctober 2, 2024
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This Spring's Massive Aurora-Sparking Solar Storm Has Given Earth A New RingAn artist’s concept of the Van Allen belts with a cutaway section of the two giant donuts of radiation that surround Earth.

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This Spring's Massive Aurora-Sparking Solar Storm Has Given Earth A New RingAn artist’s concept of the Van Allen belts with a cutaway section of the two giant donuts of radiation that surround Earth.
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This Spring's Massive Aurora-Sparking Solar Storm Has Given Earth A New Ring

clock-iconAugust 19, 2024
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A 60-Year-Old Mystery About The Van Allen Belts Has Been Solvedarticle image

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A 60-Year-Old Mystery About The Van Allen Belts Has Been Solvedarticle image
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A 60-Year-Old Mystery About The Van Allen Belts Has Been Solved

clock-iconDecember 15, 2017

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Saturn’s Radiation Belts Are Unlike What We See On Eartharticle image

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Saturn’s Radiation Belts Are Unlike What We See On Eartharticle image
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Saturn’s Radiation Belts Are Unlike What We See On Earth

clock-iconOctober 31, 2017