Here's a fun read: Mind Blowing Facts About Planet Earth We Did Not Learn In School

 

That's pretty incredible, not gonna lie. And I'll spoil it right now, 14,000 MILES! You'd had to walk 500 Miles and then walk 500 more about 14 times over. WIIIIIIILD! and that is LITERALLY just the first thing on this list of several things...... keep going though for the link to the article (thanks to CHLLOE.Com!) 

Who Would've guessed: NASA Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in Earth's Radiation Belts

(hurray I found my own article artwork..VIA google! At least it isn't borrowed from source article)

who woulda thought? seriously? Just for a second. Who would've thought to look in ORBIT!
pssshhh figures... Scientists love wasting money. Just kidding! but here's the scoop:

NASA's Van Allen Probes (hehe..probes) have made a remarkable, exciting and very unusual discovery-- They've found a natural particle accelerator right in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts, and it is speeding up tiny particles to more than 99 percent the speed of light. (FYI: anything with MASS cannot achieve 100% the speed of light, it is NOT possible...yet)

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