Outer Magnetospheric Boundaries: Cluster Results edited by Goetz Paschmann, Steven Schwartz, C.P. Escoubet, S. Haaland.
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...
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