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Giant Solar Storm Gave Earth A New Proton Belt, NASA's CubeSat Mission Finds
2024's gigantic solar storm gave the Earth two new temporary radiation belts, according to NASA's CubeSat mission. One of these belts could stay in place for a "very long time", according to NASA ...
Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...
Remember the northern lights that reached Florida? The solar storm created radiation belts around Earth
The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth in decades caused the temporary formation of radiation belts around Earth, NASA recently announced. A NASA CubeSat satellite made the discovery, which ...
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Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
A brief history lesson At the start of the space race in the 1950s, professor James Van Allen and ... led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of high ...
On this date: U.S. successfully launches its first satellite, Explorer 1
Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958 ...
What are the Top Inventions done by NASA?
NASA has been a symbol of human creativity, curiosity, and resolve since its founding on October 1, 1958. NASA was America's ambitious reaction to the Soviet Union's early achievements in space ...