Outer Magnetospheric Boundaries: Cluster Results

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Paschmann, G. (Editor), Schwartz, S. J. (Editor), Escoubet, C. P. (Editor), Haaland, S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI, 20
• Subjects: Physics.; Geophysics.; Planetology.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

When the stream of plasma emitted from the Sun (the solar wind) encounters Earth's magnetic field, it slows down and flows around it, leaving behind a cavity, the magnetosphere. The magnetopause is the surface that separates the solar wind on the outside from the Earth's magnetic field on...