The Van Allen Belt

The Van Allen radiation belt is a doughnut form of energetic charged particles these are mostly protons and electrons which are located around the Earth and which is trapped by its magnetic field. There are two main sources , the first one is the inner belt some call it the Van Allen radiation belt because it was dicovered by a man called James Van Allen in 1958 which studied at the University of Iowa. This is thought to be located and trapped about 4000 miles down in the earth's surface.
The place in The Van Allen radiation belt is occiopied by tons of protons which energies from the ran…