The Van Allen radiation belts are named after whom?
Johannes Kepler
Neil Armstrong
Isaac Newton
James Van Allen
Answer
The Van Allen radiation belts are named after James Van Allen. Van Allen was an American physicist and space scientist who discovered the belts in 1958 while working on the first US satellite, Explorer 1. The Van Allen radiation belts are two donut-shaped regions of high-energy radiation that surround the Earth. They are caused by the interaction of the Earth's magnetic field with the solar wind.
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