It ain't as big as this belt.
It ain't as big as this belt.
Oh just great...one more thing to change at 40k miles.
Oh great, all of the “We didn’t land on the moon” people are going to barking about this belt as being ANOTHER reason why we faked the moon landing...
Vanity Alert!
During WWII my dad worked on proximity fuses with James Van Allen at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) of Johns Hopkins University. My mom said that he came over for dinner sometimes.
This was a few years before I cam along, so I never met him.
They built the proximity fuse, a vacuum tube radar set that fit in the nose of a anti-aircraft artillery shell. It withstood 50,000 G acceleration when fired. Growing up I had a non-explosive one I played with in the sandbox. I wish I still had it. Quite a museum piece!
Vacuum tubes!
Surely this is caused by global warming?
Bush’s fault
You can never have too many radiation belts.
Thanks for the posting didn’t go to link about the severity of radiation and where in space from earth this belt is. And subsequent posts didn’t help much either.