I’ve often seen the Van Allen radiation belts depicted with a large space separating them (aka the ‘safe zone’) but now I read the first terminates at 12k Km and the second begins at 13k Km. So are they actually very close (relatively speaking)?
by /u/eeeeeep in /r/askscience
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