If you could hop in a time-traveling spacecraft, go back three billion years and land any place in our solar system, where would you want to end up? Earth, with its barren continents and unbreathable atmosphere? Or Mars, a chillier version its big brother? Wait, what about Venus? Venus Was Habitable, Researchers Say. Venus has a…
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Earth’s Third Van Allen Radiation Belt Made By A “Space Tsunami”
Earth’s incredible magnetic field is not only useful when using a compass. It is there to protect us, and life on Earth would not be possible without it. The magnetic field stops energetic particles and it traps them in large swarms around the planet in zones that we call Van Allen radiation belts. Two of…