After launch, the Polaris Dawn crew will travel into an oval-shaped orbit that extends as high as 870 miles from Earth. That’s well into the inner band of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts ...

Van Allen died in 2006 at age 91. In the late 1950s, he designed instruments for a satellite that discovered bands of intense radiation surrounding the earth, now known as the Van Allen Belts.

Van Allen Elementary ' s high ranking earned it eligibility to display a U.S. News Best Elementary Schools award badge. Badge eligibility recognizes educational excellence, as described here ...

The impacts of space weather such as extreme solar winds and magnetic waves are not limited to outer space. Bursts of plasma emanating from the sun, for instance, can temporarily intensify ...

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