Van Allen Probes
Originally designed for a two-year mission, NASA's Van Allen Probes A and B launched on Aug. 30, 2012, and gathered unprecedented data on the Van Allen belts for almost seven years. The mission made several major discoveries about how the radiation belts operate during its lifetime, including the first data showing the existence of a transient third radiation belt, which can form during times of intense solar activity.
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