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A ring of charged particles surrounding the Earth that are trapped by the planet's magnetic field. They were first detected by the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958 and are named after James Van Allen an American space scientist who designed and built the instruments on the satellite.

Van Allen Radiation Belt (credit:- NASA)

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