van allen belts

     

In 1958 Explorer I discovered these radiation bands surrounding the Earth

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  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the Sun and Earth on the monitor.) On the sunward side of the Earth, these bands are compressed by solar winds; on the other side they can stretch farther
  • These radiation belts named for an American physicist are found in the earth's magnetosphere

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