Explore: Radiation Belts

such belts, and sometimes others may be temporarily created. The belts are named after James Van Allen, who published an article describing the belts in

detonations led to the development of artificial radiation belts. Before the discovery of the natural Van Allen belts in 1958, N. C. Christofilos had suggested

formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), were two robotic spacecraft that were used to study the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth

The Radiation Belt and Magnetosphere is a book written by Wilmot Hess in 1968. The intention of the book is to amalgamate and sift through some 2500 articles

establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following his discovery using Geiger–Müller tube

formed radiation belts around the Earth. The added electrons increased the intensity of electrons within the natural inner Van Allen radiation belt by several

the main radiation belt. The saturnian radiation belts are generally much weaker than those of Jupiter and do not emit much microwave radiation (with frequency

the field itself varies in intensity as a gradient. The Van Allen radiation belts are symmetric about the Earth's magnetic axis, which is tilted with

atmosphere. Radiation in orbit around Earth is concentrated in Van Allen radiation belts, which trap solar and galactic radiation. Radiation is a threat

avoid the radiation belts and the International Space Station is at an altitude well below the most severe regions of the radiation belts. During solar