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Electrons drift eastwards in the Van Allen radiation belts
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Peer-reviewed studies confirm that relativistic electrons in the Earth's radiation belts generally drift eastwards along closed magnetic drift shells.

Evidence for · 2
Space Weather: Cross Correlation Between Plasmaspheric Hiss Waves and Enhanced Radiation Levels at Aviation Altitudes
2025 · cited by 0
States that relativistic electrons in the Earth's radiation belts generally drift eastwards.
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OpenAIRE: Understanding the effects of energetic particle precipitation on earth’s atmosphere
2025 · cited by 0
Notes that in the Earth's ring current/radiation belt regions, electrons drift eastwards.
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  1. Wikipedia: Electronreferencesame source L1no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Wikipedia: Van Allen radiation beltreferencesame source L1no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. George Hewnes Ltd.: Dictionary of Astronauticsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. hart publishing company, inc.: a dictionary of astronauticsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Springer Verlag: Geophysics III/1 / Geophysik III/1 (Encyclopedia of Physics XLIX/1 / Handbuch Der Physik XLIX/1)referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Macmillan: The Macmillan dictionary of astronomyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Pan in association with the Macmillan Press: A Dictionary of astronomyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Facts on File: Air : the nature of atmosphere and the climatereferencesame source L7no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Facts on File: Air : the nature of atmosphere and the climatereferencesame source L7no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Facts on File: The Facts on File dictionary of astronomyreferencesame source L7no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Space Weather: Cross Correlation Between Plasmaspheric Hiss Waves and Enhanced Radiation Levels at Aviation Altitudespeer-reviewedsame source L8supports
  12. OpenAIRE: Cross Correlation Between Plasmaspheric Hiss Waves and Enhanced Radiation Levels at Aviation Altitudespeer-reviewedsame source L8supports
  13. OpenAIRE: Understanding the effects of energetic particle precipitation on earth’s atmospherepeer-reviewedsupports
  14. NASA Technical Reports Server: The van allen radiation beltprimary-datasame source L10no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  15. NASA Technical Reports Server: OBSERVATION OF THE VAN ALLEN RADIATION REGIONS DURING AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1959. 4. THE OUTER-ZONE ELECTRONSprimary-datasame source L10no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. NASA Technical Reports Server: Observation of the van allen radiation regions during august and september, 1959. 4- the outer-zone electronsprimary-datasame source L10no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. NASA Technical Reports Server: Electrons in the Van Allen zone measured with a scintillator on Explorer XIVprimary-datasame source L10no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. NASA Technical Reports Server: The acceleration and precipitation of Van Allen outer zone energetic electronsprimary-datasame source L10no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. OSTI: Multi‐Species Energy‐Banded Ions in the Ionosphere During the 21 January 2005 Magnetic Storm: Low‐Altitude Edge of the Warm Plasma Cloakpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. Annales Geophysicae (Online): Statistical and temporal characteristics of sawtooth eventspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. OSTI: Substorm Driven Chorus Waves: Decay Timescales and Implications for Pulsating Aurorapeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  22. OSTI: Modeling the Contribution of Precipitation Loss to a Radiation Belt Electron Dropout Observed by Van Allen Probespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  23. Geophysical Research Letters: Origin of Electron Boomerang Stripes: Statistical Studypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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