Posted on 08/02/2023 10:12:42 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Using NASA’s Van Allen Probes, new research reveals that the Van Allen radiation belts contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons from reaching Earth.
The Van Allen belts are a collection of charged particles, gathered in place by Earth’s magnetic field. They can wax and wane in response to incoming energy from the sun, sometimes swelling up enough to expose satellites in low-Earth orbit to damaging radiation. The discovery of the drain that acts as a barrier within the belts was made using NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in August 2012 to study the region. A paper on these results appeared in the November 27, 2014, issue of Nature magazine.
“This barrier for the ultra-fast electrons is a remarkable feature of the belts,” said Dan Baker, a space scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder and first author of the paper. “We’re able to study it for the first time, because we never had such accurate measurements of these high-energy electrons before.”
Understanding what gives the radiation belts their shape and what can affect the way they swell or shrink helps scientists predict the onset of those changes. Such predictions can help scientists protect satellites in the area from the radiation.
The Van Allen belts were the first discovery of the space age, measured with the launch of a US satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958. In the decades since, scientists have learned that the size of the two belts can change – or merge, or even separate into three belts occasionally. But generally the inner belt stretches from 400 to 6,000 miles above Earth’s surface and the outer belt stretches from 8,400 to 36,000 miles above Earth’s surface…
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Really, I could care less about their “credentials”. The topic they addressed shows me they're attention whores talking shit with nothing more than their ego to back them up.
I have heard this BS for over 4 decades, and nothing any of these asshats have to say on the subject is either impressive or of any note. They're full of shit.
Period.
If Elon Musk came out as one of these morons, I would classify him in the same genre. Intelligent, but an attention whore who has an opinion that does not reflect reality.
Elon has to deal with the issue in the real world—not in a debate.
So—let us see if he can.
I’m thinking he’s certainly not vain enough to chime in with the Apollo Hoax fellowship, and his company is engaged with NASA to return humans to the moon, so I would think he’s no idiot in this aspect, but my point remains.
Impenetrable perhaps to high-energy electrons...
The guy who said that ‘there’s a sucker born every minute’ sure wasn’t wrong.
Great Van Allen belt article, thanks for sharing it!
A must read for anybody *seriously* questioning what really happened, or didn’t happen.
Thats the same thing that made me want to join the flat earthers some years back. There was a guy doing an interview about the club and there were a bunch of average people getting all indignant and yelling at this guy. He just kept smiling and pushing on with his story and it became obvious that this guy was a few points brighter than the average person in the room and was just trolling them for a laugh but could barely hold back.
Except there’s no conundrum.
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