SECOND RING. “The outer van Allen radiation belt consists mainly of electrons in the energy range from hundreds of keV to several MeV. The electrons reside colocated with the ring current and the plasmasphere in the inner magnetosphere, roughly from 3 RE to slightly beyond geostationary orbit.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.12942/lrsp-2007-1
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022