Sun-Earth Connection

The Van Allen Belts and the Great Electron Escape

January 31, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter During the 1950s and just before the great “Space Race” began, scientists like Kristian Birkeland, Carl Stormer, and Nicholas Christofilos had been paying close attention to a theory – one that involved trapped, charged particles in a ring around the Earth. [...]

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