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...
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.
The Van Allen Radiation Belt 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...
Only if you plan to live there for a while :)Are they hazardous, the micro wave above us is for our protection, like the bars on a baby's crib, they keep the baby from falling out, are they...
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Van Allen belt
(zones of high-intensity particulate radiation)