Scientists seem to have found the solution of the mystery behind why the electrically-charged particles that are trapped in the radiation belts at thousands of kilometers above our planet suddenly get vanish and after this reappear in heightened solar activity periods.

The researchers who are NASA-funded at the California University, Los Angeles tracked these electrons using the data simultaneously collected with 11 separate spacecraft.

These findings indicate when solar energy bursts released through storms on sun hit the magnetic field of Earth they send the electrons in Van Allen radiation belts that are hurtling in outer space.

In few days time, these depleted radiation rings again swell using the full new crop of highly-charged electrons from sun that are very energetic and move with nearly speed of light.

These UCLA researchers observe that highly charged particles escaping Van Allen belts all the time stream outward, instead of raining down to the Earth’s atmosphere like some theories indicate.

Realizing how the solar energy tends to move in as well as out of Van Allen radiation belts is been the critical part to develop precise weather forecasts of space.