F.O.G.

BREAKING: Third Radiation Belt Discovered Around Earth!

Let me take pleasure in scooping Spaceweather.com and Suspicious Observer on this one, hehe.

This newly discovered 'Van Allen radiation belt' is seemingly a direct consequence of solar activity. NASA scientists were surprised because they had no idea this existed. From the NASA press release-

"But a group of scientists on the mission made a case for changing the plan. They asked that the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope (REPT) be turned on early – just three days after launch -- in order that its observations would overlap with another mission called SAMPEX (Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer), that was soon going to de-orbit and re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

It was a lucky decision. Shortly before REPT turned on, solar activity on the sun had sent energy toward Earth that caused the radiation belts to swell. The REPT instrument worked well from the moment it was turned on Sep. 1. It made observations of these new particles trapped in the belts, recording their high energies, and the belts' increased size.

Then something happened no one had ever seen before: the particles settled into a new configuration, showing an extra, third belt extending out into space. Within mere days of launch, the Van Allen Probes showed scientists something that would require rewriting textbooks.

"By the fifth day REPT was on, we could plot out our observations and watch the formation of a third radiation belt," says Shri Kanekal, the deputy mission scientist for the Van Allen Probes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and a coauthor of a paper on these results. "We started wondering if there was something wrong with our instruments. We checked everything, but there was nothing wrong with them. The third belt persisted beautifully, day after day, week after week, for four weeks."

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These readings are really scary- off the charts- look at the intensity

I've never seen the riometer like this
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We are getting SLAMMED!
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Hon, on the bottom of [link to www.haarp.alaska.edu]

Put this date in: 20120425

Then put in this date: 20110310 (yes this is before the Japan EQ)

Those are scary ones.

These readings are really scary- off the charts- look at the intensity

I've never seen the riometer like this
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We are getting SLAMMED!
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Morning WA -You just read my mind lol was just getting ready to do that

Good day to you too AK. I saved this
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and it always comes up with the April 2012 date. so it always reminds me what it could look like, lol.

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We've got a G1 storm, 600 mph solar winds, but bz is +. strange as certain charts are showing particles are getting through our magnetosphere but with a northward bz?

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We've got a G1 storm, 600 mph solar winds, but bz is +. strange as certain charts are showing particles are getting through our magnetosphere but with a northward bz?

I think it's got somethimg to do with the pole shifts and the Van Allen belt but that's juist my opinion you are the expert here Shad

Areas as the Van Allen radiation belts potentials can be as high as 100 million volts. Because these are high currents and are of astronomical size in a high resistance environment P = I2 × R, the energy required to support the currents is astronomical. The energy is of the proportions such that if applied to stop the Earth, it could bring the Earth to a stand still within one revolution about the Sun.
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You are right AK. I just checked bz is now south so we've got big time electrons coming through as polar rain, definite ground contact. We may see some big quaking in the next 2 to 3 days!

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Check out the magnetopause as this storm hits today, its curling in tight. Its out of shape so to speak!

I think it's got somethimg to do with the pole shifts and the Van Allen belt but that's juist my opinion you are the expert here Shad

Areas as the Van Allen radiation belts potentials can be as high as 100 million volts. Because these are high currents and are of astronomical size in a high resistance environment P = I2 × R, the energy required to support the currents is astronomical. The energy is of the proportions such that if applied to stop the Earth, it could bring the Earth to a stand still within one revolution about the Sun.
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