Editing Van Allen radiation belt (section)

==Proposed removal==
Draining the charged particles from the Van Allen belts would open up new orbits for satellites and make travel safer for astronauts.<ref name="choi" >
Charles Q. Choi.
[https://spectrum.ieee.org/hacking-the-van-allen-belts "Hacking the Van Allen Belts"].
2014.
</ref> Draining radiation belts around other planets has also been proposed, for example, before exploring [[Europa (moon)|Europa]], which orbits within [[Jupiter]]'s radiation belt.<ref>
[https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/mar/HQ_05070_radiation_belt.html "NASA Finds Lightning Clears Safe Zone in Earth's Radiation Belt"]. NASA, 2005.
</ref> Since the radiation belts are part of a complex system, it is unknown if there could be [[unintended consequences]] to removing these radiation belts.<ref name="choi" />

One concept proposed to drain and remove the radiation fields of the Van Allen radiation belts is known as
High Voltage Orbiting Long Tether, or HiVOLT, a concept proposed by Russian physicist [[Valentin Danilov|V. V. Danilov]] and further refined by [[Robert P. Hoyt]] and [[Robert L. Forward]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://radbelts.gsfc.nasa.gov/outreach/RadNews.html |title=NASA outreach: RadNews |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613193849/http://radbelts.gsfc.nasa.gov/outreach/RadNews.html |archive-date=2013-06-13 |url-status=dead |access-date=2013-09-27}}</ref> that surround the Earth.<ref name=mirnov1996>{{cite journal
| last1 = Mirnov
| first1 = Vladimir
| last2 = Üçer
| first2 = Defne
| last3 = Danilov
| first3 = Valentin
| author-link3 = Valentin Danilov
| date = November 10–15, 1996
| title = High-Voltage Tethers For Enhanced Particle Scattering In Van Allen Belts
| journal = APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts
| volume = 38
| id = Abstract #7E.06
| pages = 7
| oclc = 205379064
| bibcode = 1996APS..DPP..7E06M
}}</ref>
Another proposal for draining the Van Allen belts involves beaming very-low-frequency (VLF) radio waves from the ground into the Van Allen belts.<ref>
Saswato R. Das.
[https://spectrum.ieee.org/military-experiments-target-the-van-allen-belts "Military Experiments Target the Van Allen Belts"].
2007.
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