The Van Allen belts are two areas of the magnetosphere that surrounds the Earth, where high-energy charged particles are concentrated, mostly from the solar wind, in simple terms, the shield of our magnetosphere, our magnetic shield is a shield, it does not destroy solar radiation particles, it only deflects them and some are deflected and channeled towards the Van Allen belts where they are concentrated.
They concentrate there, this detail is important and they stay there for a long time until they lose energy and dissipate. The inner belt extends from about 500 km above the surface of the Earth to about 5000 km high and the other The exterior extends from about 15,000 km to 58,000 km in altitude.
They can be transferred, in fact, the issue is like almost everything in life is that we have to take precautions, in the fringe, in the second belt are the geostationary satellites at about 36,000 km high, the gestational ones are the ones that remain fixed on a point on the earth and are within the second belt, they are satellites that have to be shielded so that the radiation does not affect them.
And what about humans; Staying in them, staying in these belts in these bands would be a very bad idea, since a human being would receive a fatal lethal dose in just 8 hours. Question, the astronauts on the Polo missions did not affect them because they simply did not stay in them. They crossed them on their journey and were only affected for a few minutes, not hours, minutes.
Remember the key, the radiation is concentrated in these belts, but outside these belts the radiation is much less and in principle it would not be a problem, if it were not for cosmic radiation and solar storms.
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