Magnetosphere of Earth: Plasmasphere

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2346. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth, Earth'S Magnetosphere

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The plasmasphere is a torus of cold, dense plasma encircling the Earth that usually exhibits a very sharp edge at a distance ranging between 2 and about 6 Earth radii in the equatorial plane. Figure 1 is a simplified diagram of the plasmasphere as viewed from the Sun, showing some of its main features: the plasmapause, the main body of the plasmasphere, the dusk-bulge region and a detached plasma...

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