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Van Allen Probes Discover a New Radiation Belt - NASA Science
Back in the 1950s when the radiation belts were discovered, they had little effect on ordinary people. Today the radiation belts are crucial to our high-tech society. Hundreds of satellites used for everything from weather prediction to GPS to television routinely skim the belts, subjecting themselves to energetic particles that can damage solar panels and short-circuit sensitive electronics. During geomagnetic storms when the belts are swollen by solar activity, whole fleets of satellites can be engulfed, imperiling the technological underpinnings of daily life on the planet below. The Van Allen Probes directly address these down-to-Earth problems
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The van allen belt were there for years before. But they down played its effects so that they can fool the world. they made us think that the van allen belt has little effects on humans. The space shuttle project proved them wrong. thats why they have to kill those researchers on board. To keep them from exposing the real danger the van allen belt pose to the astronauts passing it.