Gaps in Earth's Radiation Belts

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Gaps in the Earth's Radiation Belts

The Earth's radiation belts (violet & white) change considerably due to a number of influences, ranging from a changing solar wind to the lightning on the Earth. Here we see a range of variation in the electron flux in early December 2003. White indicates higher electron flux than violet. The gray curves represent the lines of the Earth's magnetic field. These radiation belts are constructed on a per-orbit basis with data from SAMPEX.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    SAMPEX/PET

  • Animation ID

    3115

  • Video ID

    None

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Tom Bridgman

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2005/02/28

  • Scientist

    James Green (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    SSCweb

  • Keywords

    Radiation Belts, Magnetic Fields, Energetic Particles, Orbit

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    2003-12-01T00:00 - 2003-12-10T23:59

  • Animation Type

    Regular