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Cutaway of the Van Allen radiation belts.

The Radiation Belts

Learn more about Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts

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Science Mission Directorate:

Understanding the Sun, Heliosphere, and Planetary Environments as a single connected system is a goal of the Heliophysics Research Program.

Heliophysics

Artist concept of space weather showing an active Sun with flares and a CME in the upper right, the Earth in the lower right with types of technology affected by space weather to the lower left; satellites, airplanes, the ISS and ground-based electrical lines.

Studying the Sun-Earth connection.

RBSP-Atlas V Slideshow

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Radiation Belts with Satellites

A cutaway model of the radiation belts with the 2 Van Allen Probes satellites flying through them.

Three Radiation Belts Around Earth

Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. In 2012, observations from the Van Allen Probes showed that a third belt can sometimes appear.

Earth's Magnetosphere

Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere.

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