Solving the mystery of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts.

Solving the mystery of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts.
My article in Nature, Ephemeral Third Ring of Radiation Makes Appearance Around Earth, discusses how twin spacecraft studying the Van Allen radiation belt overturned a fifty year old model: Instead of seeing two rings of high-energy particles circling the Earth, an unexpected third ring has been found.
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