Van allen radiation belt

The Van Allen radiation belts are symmetric about the Earth's magnetic axis, which is tilted with respect to the Earth's rotational axis by an angle of approximately 11°. The intersection between the magnetic and rotation axes of the Earth is located not at the Earth's center, but some 450 to 500km (280 to 310mi) away. Because of this asymmetry, the inner Van Allen belt is closest to the Earth's surface over the south Atlantic Ocean where it dips down to 200km (120mi) in altitude, and farthest from the Earth's surface over the north Pacific Ocean. Area of the South Atlantic Anomaly, 1840 to 2020. If Earth's magnetism is represented by a bar magnet of small size but strong intensity (" The shape of the SAA changes over time. Since its initial discovery in 1958, −50° to 0° geographic latitude and from −90° to +40° longitude. Current literature suggests that a slow weakening of the The South Atlantic Anomaly seems to be caused by a huge reservoir of very dense rock inside the Earth called the Intensity and effects [ ] • ^ a b Pavón-Carrasco, F. Javier; De Santis, Angelo (April 2016). Frontiers in Earth Science. 4. 40. • Rao, G. S. (2010). Global Navigation Satellite Systems: With Essentials of Satellite Communications. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill. p.125. 978-0-07-070029-1. • Stassinopoulos, Epaminondas G.; Xapsos, Michael A.; Stauffer, Craig A. (December 2015). • Crotts, Arlin (2014). The New Moon: Water, Exploration, and Future Habitation. 978-0-521-76224-3. • ". NASA . Retr...

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Electrically charged particles are trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field, forming the Van Allen radiation belts. Observations show that electrons in this region can have energies in excess of 7 MeV. However, whether electrons at these ultra-relativistic energies are locally accelerated, arise from betatron and Fermi acceleration due to transport across the magnetic field, or if a combination of both mechanisms is required, has remained an unanswered question in radiation belt physics. Here, we present a unique way of analyzing satellite observations which demonstrates that local acceleration is capable of heating electrons up to 7 MeV. By considering the evolution of phase space density peaks in magnetic coordinate space, we observe distinct signatures of local acceleration and the subsequent outward radial diffusion of ultra-relativistic electron populations. The results have important implications for understanding the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth’s radiation belts, as well as in magnetized plasmas throughout the solar system. Discovered at the start of the space age, the Van Allen radiation belts consist of relativistic ( ≳...

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