• 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...
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    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...
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    establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following his discovery using Geiger–Müller...
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    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...
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    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...
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    about 2000 kilometers), roughly at the beginning of the inner Van Allen radiation belt. The term LEO region is also used for the area of space below an...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Geiger counter, as was used for the original observations of the Van Allen radiation belt. Scintillator detectors came later, and still later "channeltron"...
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