Antimatter Belt Detected Orbiting the Earth

Scientists working on the PAMELA Space Mission, which studies particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere, have confirmed that there is a band of antiprotons orbiting the Earth near the inner Van Allen Belt. Antiprotons have been hypothesized to be found in this region near the Earth, where they’re ...

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