Antimatter Belt Around the Earth

A report for Nasa's Institute for Advanced Concepts stated that a belt of Antimatter is found around the Earth and announced that there is a probability that the Earth's magnetic field could trap antimatter. The antiprotons were spotted by the Pamela satellite which was launched in 2006. It has been identified that this antimatter can be used as fuel source for our future spacecraft operations.

Seems in the new results, Pamela discovered huge amounts of this antimatter when it passed through a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly, than ever expected by us to come from the whole cosmos.Generally, this antimatter annihilates immediately after getting combined with the atmospheric constituents but in this case, as it is an atmosphere less condition, the loss rate is comparitively lower and the antimatter stays un reacted for some specific period of time around the Van allen belts.

AUGUST 7 ,2011. 

Ref:BBC News, Science and Environment.