radiation belt
English
Noun
radiation belt (plural radiation belts)
- (astronomy, physics) A region of high-energy charged particles which partly surrounds a planet or star, trapped by its magnetic field and characterized by intense radiation.
- 2003, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, How It Works: Science and Technology, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 1899:
- Radiation belts have been found circling all the planets in the Solar System that have a strong magnetic field, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Earth.
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References
- “radiation belt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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