What are the Van Allen belts?
A) regions in the outer solar system beyond Pluto where comets are thought to originate
B) dark regions in Jupiter's atmosphere circling the planet parallel to the equator
C) regions of intense earthquake activity along tectonic plate boundaries on Earth
D) regions of high-energy, charged particles in Earth's magnetosphere
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