The Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around...

establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following his discovery using Geiger–Müller...

The Van Allen Probes, formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), were two robotic spacecraft that were used to study the Van Allen radiation...

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of...

US Van Allen radiation belt, a torus of energetic charged particles around Earth Van Allen Probes, two robotic NASA spacecraft Search for "Van Allen" on...

articles, written since 1960, on this topic. Magnetosphere Van Allen radiation belt James A. Van Allen (1 October 2004). Origins Of Magnetospheric Physics:...

detonations led to the development of artificial radiation belts. Before the discovery of the natural Van Allen belts in 1958, N. C. Christofilos had suggested...

Range (AMR), in Florida. It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, returning data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly...

one-third of the radius of Earth and near the beginning of the inner Van Allen radiation belt. The term LEO region is used for the area of space below an altitude...

carried on Luna 2 was to determine the electron spectrum of the Van Allen radiation belt. It consisted of three STS-5 gas-discharge counters mounted on...

The revised spacecraft objectives were to measure radiation in the outer Van Allen radiation belt using two Geiger-Müller tubes and to test the trigger...

by Earth's magnetic field spiral around field lines to form the Van Allen radiation belt. The electrons are from the solar wind and may remain trapped above...

physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field,...

particles; however, some of the charged particles are trapped in the Van Allen radiation belt. A smaller number of particles from the solar wind manage to travel...

Geiger counter, as was used for the original observations of the Van Allen radiation belt. Scintillator detectors came later, and still later "channeltron"...

structure would lie inside the Van Allen radiation belt, and the space elevator would run through the Van Allen belts. This is not a problem for most...

background and gave us a lot of freedom.... My own research was on the Van Allen radiation belt. [We developed] a theory to explain how solar protons can diffuse...

shielded by the magnetic field of the Earth, but also suffer from the Van Allen radiation belt which accumulates cosmic rays and results from the Earth's magnetic...

program. They passed through parts of the Van Allen radiation belt to study the health effects of space radiation and spaceflight on the human body. Later...

Pioneer 11 South Atlantic Anomaly, an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to the Earth's surface True anomaly, the angle between...

operational Living With a Star Van Allen Probes, launched August 2012, completed – Twin probes studying the Van Allen radiation belt Earth Observing System Terra...

heat re-radiation. The MEO region includes the two zones of energetic charged particles above the equator known as the Van Allen radiation belts, which...

trapped in the radiation belts to precipitate into the atmosphere. Once particles are lost to the atmosphere from the radiation belts, under quiet conditions...

result, there is a decrease in the effects of geomagnetic field. Van Allen radiation belt I. A. Daglis; R. M. Thorne; W. Baumjohann & S. Orsini (November...

create a radiation belt in the extreme upper regions of the Earth's atmosphere. Such belts would be similar in effect to the Van Allen radiation belts. "Such...

fact that the vast majority of geostationary orbits lie in the Van Allen Radiation Belt. Optical solar reflectors are a type of second surface mirror....

satellites for the purposes of studying the Van Allen radiation belts and the effects of nuclear explosions upon these belts (and the Earth's magnetosphere in general)...

was deployed in low Earth orbit at 450 km (280 mi) to avoid the Van Allen radiation belt. It was the heaviest astrophysical payload ever flown at that time...

formed radiation belts around the Earth. The added electrons increased the intensity of electrons within the natural inner Van Allen radiation belt by several...

Spider-Man, the Human Torch and Ms. Marvel, Kl'rt is trapped in the Van Allen radiation belt. A Canadian research team accidentally pulls Kl'rt back from deep...