One year after their launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:05 a.m. E DT on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes have already fundamentally changed how we understand the ...
Our planet is nestled in the center of two immense, concentric doughnuts of powerful radiation: the Van Allen radiation belts, which harbor swarms of charged particles that are trapped by Earth’s ...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 25, 2013 — Researchers believe they have solved a lingering mystery about how electrons within Earth's radiation belt can suddenly become energetic enough to kill orbiting ...
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, March 11, at 6:37 a.m. EDT, marking the final chapter for a spacecraft that reshaped scientists’ understanding of the radiation ...
NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of ...
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere March 10, nearly 14 years after launch. Most of the spacecraft should burn up, and the risk to people on the ground is low. The twin ...
High above our heads, a silent battle is unfolding within Earth's magnetic shield. For decades, scientists have tracked ...
After nearly 14 years in space, NASA’s Van Allen Probe A made a fiery return to Earth on Wednesday, March 11. Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, the satellite blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and ...
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