Van Allen
Americannoun
noun
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The spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, were on a mission to gather unprecedented data on Earth's two permanent radiation belts.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
The research focused on two bands of energetic particles in near earth space, referred to as the Radiation Belts, or the Van Allen Belts.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024
As Van Allen stated, science fiction writers nurtured grandiose plans for human space travel.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022
He also made the first radio map of the Milky Way’s center, and co-discovered regions of seething radiation around Jupiter analogous to Earth’s Van Allen belts.
From Scientific American • Sep. 6, 2022
When the magnetic field is working, these rays are safely herded away from the Earth’s surface and into two zones in near space called the Van Allen belts.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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