why is the van allen radiation belt so important to life?

Answer 1

Jasmine, I am not going to make a fool out of myself, ok? The reason is if Van Allen did not have his belt, his pants would fall! , you know how embarr............Jasmine, what!?!?!Why are you shaking your head?

Answer 2

This is a guess: it probably traps all the cosmic radiation coming from outer space and hence prevent this from falling on us like fallout from an atom bomb and frizzling us to death.

The cosmic radiation probably ionises the atoms in the van allen belt and creates a shield of charged particles which in turn would retard or repel or deflect the path of other charged particles.

Perhaps it is important in deflecting radio waves moving up to it (the sky wave) so that it can be reflected back to ground and be picked up from beyond the horizon. This usefulness is lessened because we have our Telecommunication satellites all over the skies to do the job anyway.

Answer 3

The Van Allen belt tends to capture particles from space that are potentially dangerous to life on earth.

Answer 4

Some scientists,theorize that the Van Allen belts carry some additional protection against solar wind, which means that a weakening of the belts could harm electronics and organisms; and that they may influence the Earth's telluric current, which means that dissipating the belts could influence the behaviour of Earth's magnetic poles