A fierce solar storm in May 2024 did more than disrupt GPS — it created two new radiation belts. A revived CubeSat captured ...

The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed to geostationary orbit and beyond.

The new belts formed between two others that permanently surround Earth called the Van Allen Belts. Shaped like concentric rings high above ... NASA's Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment ...

Electrons in a Van Allen radiation belt (blue) encounter whistler waves (purple) and are sent raining toward the north pole (red). THEMIS satellites are seen near the radiation belt, while UCLA ...

Van Allen, J. A., paper presented at joint meeting of National Academy of Sciences and American Physical Society on May 1, 1958. Van Allen, J. A., Ludwig, G. H., Ray ...

observe are near 5.5 Re, and generally lie outside the region of high-density cold plasma ... Figure 1: Electron acceleration in the outer Van Allen radiation belt. Although the present results ...

RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon NASA has revealed its experimental Radiation Tolerant Computer has made it through the ...

For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged particles from the Sun rocked the planet ... Featured picture: The May 2024 solar storm created two extra radiation belts, sandwiched between ...

The twin Van Allen Probes have spent more than six years orbiting through Earth's radiation belts. Orbit changes in early 2019 will ensure that the spacecraft eventually de-orbit and disintegrate ...

More by James A. Van Allen This article was originally published with the title “ Radiation Belts around the Earth ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 200 No. 3 ( March 1959 ) , p. 39 doi ...

In particular, recent work has focused on wave-particle interactions, solar wind-magnetosphere interactions, and energetic particle dynamics in Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts through analysis of ...