Van Allen belt behaviour...

From the British Antarctic Survey is a report on understanding
radiation hazards wrt to the Van Allen Belts and space weather.
See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050908081518.htm.

A brief excerpt:
"Reporting in the journal Nature this week, the team describe how their
study of rare and unusual space storms provided a unique opportunity to
test conflicting theories about the behaviour of high energy particles
in the Van Allen radiation belts* - a volatile region 12000 miles
(19,000 km) above the Earth."

and "This new information will help spacecraft operators and space
weather forecasters who must predict when satellites and missions are
most at risk from radiation events allowing them to take measures to
protect instruments and systems from damage, and astronauts from risks
to their health."

The BAS site is http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/

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snidely wrote:
From the British Antarctic Survey is a report on understanding
radiation hazards wrt to the Van Allen Belts and space weather.
See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050908081518.htm.

Andrew Yee also has a post of the press release in sic.space.news
(Message-ID:
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You can get to it by
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.news/browse_frm/thread/ac5741a5b77af683/a4dceccdafaba4c9#a4dceccdafaba4c9
or
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.news/msg/a4dceccdafaba4c9?dmode=source




A brief excerpt:
"Reporting in the journal Nature this week, the team describe how their
study of rare and unusual space storms provided a unique opportunity to
test conflicting theories about the behaviour of high energy particles
in the Van Allen radiation belts* - a volatile region 12000 miles
(19,000 km) above the Earth."

and "This new information will help spacecraft operators and space
weather forecasters who must predict when satellites and missions are
most at risk from radiation events allowing them to take measures to
protect instruments and systems from damage, and astronauts from risks
to their health."

The BAS site is http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/

/dps