Van Allen radiation belts

Layer 1 — Physicsin the radiation-physics subtree

Regions of geomagnetically-trapped energetic particles around Earth: inner belt (~1000–6000 km, protons up to ~100s MeV) and outer belt (~13000–60000 km, mostly relativistic electrons). A trans-lunar trajectory must transit the belts…

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