
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Port Canaveral in Florida, the Atlas V first stage booster for NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission is attached to a truck for offloading from United Launch Alliance's Delta Mariner barge. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, mission will help us understand the sun’s influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
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June 19, 2012
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Cape Canaveral, FL
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