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Those are the Van Allen Probes A and B, and that is just a render, not a photo. [0]. There are two of them that flew in an identical orbit, but with one following the other at a distance, because a single probe would not be able to detect the difference between a transient EM field locally vs. a moving event along the orbit, but two craft spread apart but following the same path could.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_Probes



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