radiation belt

nounPhysics.

Van Allen belt.

Origin of radiation belt

First recorded in 1955–60

Words Nearby radiation belt

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How to use radiation belt in a sentence

Juno’s hardware was specially designed to help protect it from the extreme radiation belts created by Jupiter.
This is the first new close-up picture of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in more than 20 years | Neel V. Patel | June 9, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Staying far enough up to maintain orbit, they were close enough to be below the planet's radiation belt.
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British Dictionary definitions for radiation belt

radiation belt

noun

a region in the magnetosphere of a planet in which charged particles are trapped by the planet's magnetic field, an example being the earth's Van Allen belts

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