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Twenty NASA balloons studying the radiation belts — Science Daily

Scientists race through the Antarctic snow to launch one of 20 balloons as part of NASA’s BARREL (Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) mission. Each balloon is equipped with...

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Tiny CREPT instrument to study the radiation belts — phys.org

The tiny CREPT instrument will augment the science of NASA?s Van Allen Probes, formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes. This artist?s rendering of the Van Allen Probes mission shows the path...

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NASA – NASA’s Van Allen Probes Discover a Surprise Circling Earth

Since their discovery over 50 years ago, the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts have been considered to consist of two distinct zones of trapped, highly energetic charged particles. Observations from...

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