The Van Allen Probes (formerly RBSP for Radiation Belt Storm Probes) in Earth Orbit
A basic visualization illustrating the orbit of RBSP around the Earth. This pair of probes will orbit the Earth between about 1.5 and 6 Earth radii to cover the region of the geomagnetically trapped particle radiation.
Visualization of the two RBSP probes in Earth orbit.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producers
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
- Genna Duberstein (USRA)
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Scientists
- David G. Sibeck (NASA/GSFC)
- Shrikanth G. Kanekal (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM EDT.
Missions
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SSCweb ephemerides (SSCweb)
ID: 538Satellite ephemerides
This dataset can be found at: http://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov
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