Where are Van Allen belts found?

Answer 1

A Van Allen Radiation Belt (there are actually two persistent belts, while transient third belts are occasionally observed) is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. The Van Allen belts are closely related to the polar aurora where particles strike the upper atmosphere and fluoresce.

Answer 2

solar radiation. as the solar wind hits the earth's magnetic fields, it is mostly diverted away from the earth. but some radiation gets caught in the field, and those are the van Allen radiation belts.

Aurora borealis

Answer 3

The Van Allen Radiation Belts are trapped in the Earth's geomagnetic fields. There are two belts which are toroidal(shaped like donuts or bagels) with Earth at the center. Both belts, an inner belt and an outer belt, are composed of plasma (highly energetic charged particles such as electrons and protons).

The Van Allen belts are oddly shaped toroids, however, because their shape is distorted by the "Solar Wind" of particles streaming from the Sun. The Earth, rotating at the center of the toroids, is roughly 8,000 miles (13,000 km) wide and nearly circular. The outer Van Allen belt extends roughly 8,000 miles (13,000 km) into space on the sunny side of the Earth and roughly 56,000 miles (91,000 km) into space on the dark side. The inner belt extends roughly 1/2 the distances of the outer belt.
magnetosphere

Answer 4

The Van Allen Radiation Belt touches the Earth at the poles and extends out into space up to 19,000 kilometers in a circular shape before coming back around to the opposite pole. Google Van Allen in Google Images for pictures.

Answer 5

Look up, if you live in the northern regions you have seen the VAB many times as you watched the, "Northern lights", or the aurora borealis, about 360 miles above the earth.

Answer 6

The Van Allen Belt is a band of charged particles around the Earth. It is head in place by the Earth's magnetic field.

Answer 7

They are found around the earth.