NOUN
- a belt of charged particles (resulting from cosmic rays) above the Earth trapped by the Earth's magnetic field
How To Use Van Allen belt In A Sentence
- Fleming is trying to figure out if Van Allen had any theoretical reason to suppose the military could use the Van Allen belts to attack a hostile nation.
- The invisible Van Allen belts that circle Earth in a region known as the magnetosphere trap much of this radiation and serve as an umbrella that protects people in low Earth orbit or below.
