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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He is one of six survivors. However, if you took any other sample of 24 men born between 1924 and 1932, I think you’d probably see a similar distribution
Armstrong and Collins are dead, and Aldrin may be an alien.
“that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons”
It blocks ELECTRONS. Not living things. It’s blocking part of the solar wind from bombarding us. Jeez, do you even read the stuff you post?
“This looks like a push to start the claims that we never went to the moon.”
Yes, this same FRidiot posted some “moon hoax” junk yesterday.
“the rest are ‘skeptics’ - don’t see how we got to the moon”
Thing is, if we faked it, why would Russia and China still be spending billions trying to get there? You would think they would not be taken in to that degree by some silly hoax that can be debunked by random Joe on the interwebz.
“I am not going to engage in a debate on this.”
LOL!! I suppose not. Thanks for the belly laugh.
A website devoted to promoting this farce isn’t a source. It’s preaching to the choir.
Garbage site.
Look at the credentials of the folks writing the articles.
We are not talking chopped liver here.
;-)
People looking for attention posit this nonsense. Not unlike the alphabet gang that craves attention.
Hey, look at me! I'm smart! I know stuff! I can write up a bunch of technical sounding jargon that may allow low information humans to subscribe to my journal!
Show the proof, or piss off. I'm an engineer. I don't wallow in suppositions. I deal in facts, one way or the other. All BS is instantly discarded.
None of the nonsense on that aggregate idiot page has any credibility outside of their own swollen heads/egos. I suppose they believe masks will stop a virus, too, and they'll be all to eager to explain their brilliance to anyone who will listen.
Thanks.
We used to have someone here who belived the Earth is flat.
It takes all kinds...
Three of my favorite ewetewbers. Glad you liked them.
People who have "credentials" tend to be less impressed with them ...
How did we successfully send astronauts to the moon thru the Van Allen Belt?
Or was that a hoax?
You can check out these folks—they have other publications on unrelated topics on the web.
It is a classic intellectual error to dismiss the credentials of people you disagree with—instead of carefully examining what they have to say.
I think he/she believes it was a hoax. They wrote the other day about coming to doubt the veracity of the moon shot.
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