With an energy exceeding 30 million electron-volts, intense solar activity can disrupt these bodies, and this disruption has been linked to auroras and magnetic storms.
First discovered by Explorer I [one] in 1958, they are most intense over the Equator and nearly absent over the poles. With an energy exceeding 30 million electron-volts, intense solar activity can disrupt these bodies, and this disruption has been linked to auroras and magnetic storms. Consisting of both an inner and outer version, for 10 points, name these toroids of highly charged particles present in the Earth's magnetic field, named for an American physicist.
First discovered by Explorer I [one] in 1958, they are most intense over the Equator and nearly absent over the poles.
{Van Allen} radiation belts