Magnetosphere of Earth: Plasma Sheet

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2354. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth, Earth'S Magnetosphere

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The plasma sheet is a slab of hot plasma in the equatorial region of the geomagnetic tail, and carries the cross-tail (dawn-to-dusk) current that supports the oppositely directed magnetic fields of the tail lobes (see MAGNETOSPHERE OF EARTH: GEOMAGNETIC TAIL). The plasma sheet and the embedded current sheet are clearly present to distances of at least 1.5 million km away from the Earth....

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