Van Allen radiation belt: References & Edit History
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A - From solar sneezing to killer electrons: outer radiation belt response to solar eruptions. | Oct 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Waveparticle interaction effects in the Van Allen belts. | May 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Michigan Library - Deep Blue Repositories - Outer Van Allen Radiation Belt Response to Interacting Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (PDF). | Feb 05, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Scholarly Commons - Observations and Simulations of Whistler Waves in the Van Allen Radiation Belts (PDF). | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NERC Open Research Archive - The dynamics of the radiation belts revisited (PDF). | May 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Analysis of the passage of a spacecraft between the Van Allen belts considering a low and high solar activity (PDF). | Feb 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Van Allen Radiation Belts. | Jun 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature Communications - Discovery of the action of a geophysical synchrotron in the Earths Van Allen radiation belts. | Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - Studying the Van Allen Belts 60 Years After America�s First Spacecraft. | Jan 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - Genesois of the Van Allen Radiation Belt. | Dec 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Iowa Enters the Space Age: James Van Allen, Earth�s Radiation Belts, and Experiments to Disrupt Them. | Oct 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pressbooks at Howard Community College - Journal of Research in Progress Vol. 3 - Variations of Particle Motion in the Van Allen Belts. | Jul 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space Center Houston - What are the Van Allen radiation belts? | Mar 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space.com - Van Allen Radiation Belts: Facts and Findings. | Dec 16, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Iowa - The Radio and Plasma Wave Group - Discovery of the Van Allen Radiation Belts. | Nov 06, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space. | Nov 06, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Van Allen Probes. | Jun 10, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Van Allen Probes. | Jun 10, 2016 | ||
| Text added that describes the temporary appearance of a third belt between the inner and outer Van Allen radiation belts. | Mar 20, 2013 | ||
| Diagram depicting Earth's magnetosphere and Van Allen radiation belt added. | Jul 05, 2012 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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