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Home Articles Twenty NASA balloons studying the radiation belts

Twenty NASA balloons studying the radiation belts

EarthzineFebruary 6, 2013Earth Observation, Technology

NASA's BARREL (Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) mission. Each balloon is equipped with instruments to help track how electrons from giant radiation belts surrounding Earth travel down magnetic field lines toward the poles. (Credit: NASA/S. Spain)

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