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What creates the van allen belts

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A Van Allen belt is a area of energetic charged particles, most of them come from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field. Earth has two of these belts and sometimes others may be temporarily created.

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Earth's Magnetosphere

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