Cutaway View of the Earth's Radiation Belts
Energetic electrons and ions can get trapped in the Earth's geomagnetic field forming a toroidal region around the planet known as the radiation belts.
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, May 5, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.