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What is the van allen’s radiation belts?

Named after the physicist who discovered them, these are two bands of the outermost layer of the atmosphere (magnetosphere), at heights of 3000 km and 16000 km above the earth’s surface. Here the ionized particles trapped by the earth’s magnetic field from the solar radiation, concentrate.

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