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Van Allen radiation belt [va′nal·ən ‚rād·ē′a·shən ‚belt] (geophysics) One of the belts of intense ionizing radiation in space about the earth formed by high-energy charged particles which are trapped by the geomagnetic field. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The department had its own satellite, and its chairman was James Van Allen, who discovered the Earth-girdling radiation belts that later were named after him. flag apparently waving in the breeze on the airless moon were faked, and that the astronauts could not have survived traversing the Van Allen radiation belts between Earth and the moon without contracting radiation poisoning. While the first Pioneer blew up shortly after its 1958 launch and the next three didn't meet their main goal of photographing the surface of the moon, they did provide valuable information about the Van Allen radiation belts. |
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