Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 13:53
Researchers have claimed to have resolved decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth`s near-space environment.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 13:33
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Researchers are unravelling the longstanding mysteries surrounding the Van Allen radiation belts that circle Earth.
Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 16:07
UCLA space scientists have revealed that the extremely energetic particles that made up the third ring, known as ultra-relativistic electrons, are driven by very different physics.
Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2013, 22:32
NASA scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, known as the Van Allen radiation belts.
Last Updated: Friday, March 1, 2013, 10:36
NASA`s Van Allen Probes, which was launched on Aug. 30, 2012, to study two giant belts of radiation that surround Earth, has shown scientists something that would require rewriting textbooks.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 09:52
Twin spacecraft have captured the clearest sounds yet from Earth`s radiation belts and they mimic the chirping of birds.
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