Van Allen
Americannoun
noun
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The Van Allen Probe A, which launched in 2012, is expected mostly to burn up as it travels through the atmosphere, though some components may survive.
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
Scientist James A. Van Allen stated in a January 1986 article in Scientific American, “Most national goals in space are better realized by robot spacecraft.”
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
Explorer I was launched with a scientific unit that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth, later known as the Van Allen belts.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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