NASA’s Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space

Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 10:00 in Astronomy & Space

Two donuts of seething radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts, have been found to contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons […]

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