Ephemeral third ring of radiation, previously unknown to science, surrounding our planet. [View all]

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NASA: “We’ve discovered a previously unknown surprise circling Earth”
Robert T. Gonzalez

This is wild. NASA's recently deployed Van Allen probes — a pair of robotic spacecraft launched just last August to investigate Earth's eponymous pair of radiation belts — are already turning out some very unexpected findings. Chief among them: an ephemeral third ring of radiation, previously unknown to science, surrounding our planet.

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