Saturday, May 31, 2014

Dead spacecraft helps map Bermuda Triangle of space





Peer into the Bermuda Triangle of space… A European spacecraft has given us a detailed glimpse into a dangerous radiation zone a few hundred kilometres above the coast of Brazil.

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is the point where the Van Allen radiation belts – rings of charged particles that surround Earth – come closest to the planet's surface. When the belts were discovered in the 1950s, scientists suspected the SAA could pose some risk.


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