magnetopause

This remarkable set of observations shows that magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause is not as simple as it is described in textbooks!

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

This study reports the observation of fissures on the Sun-facing side of the Earth's magnetic shield – the dayside magnetopause.

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

The position, on 25 February 2005, of the Cluster satellite constellation and the Double Star TC-1 satellite with respect to the magnetopause.

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

Any change in external current through the magnetosphere causes a convection restructuring within a time on the order of the travel time of the magnetosonic wave from the magnetopause to the center of the system, because the restructuring wave comes from both flanks.

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

"These observations support the idea that both anti-parallel and component reconnection occur at the dayside magnetopause under the same IMF conditions and that both phenomena might be the local signatures of a global reconnection picture", says Professor Malcolm Dunlop from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK.

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

For the first time, four spacecraft flying in constellation the ESA Cluster mission, have provided unambiguous evidence of anti-parallel reconnection at high latitude on the dayside magnetopause, occurring quasi-simultaneously with a period of low-latitude component reconnection detected by the Sino-European Double Star TC-1 satellite.

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

This remarkable set of OBSERVATIONS shows that magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause is not as simple as it is described in textbooks!

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

Solar wind, or the magnetopause environment of the solar system, might in the future play a role.

Planetary Society to Launch Three Separate Solar Sails | Universe Today 2009

Separatrix regions of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause

Do "Skeleton" Filaments Give Structure to the Universe? | Universe Today 2009

Far beyond Jupiter and its moons, beyond the magnetopause, Mahnmut could sense the bow shock turbulence crashing like great white waves on a hidden reef, could hear the upstream Langmuir waves singing in the magnetic darkness past that reef, and could pick out the ion acoustic waves crackling after their long voyage uphill from the sun.

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