Physics
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agusm.p33b..01r&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2009, abstract #P33B-01
Physics
2459 Planetary Ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026), 2700 Magnetospheric Physics (6939), 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), 6200 Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects
Scientific paper
The magnetic cavities in the solar wind that surround the planets that have intrinsic magnetic fields are dynamic, driven by external and internal forces. Within these spheres of magnetic influence, or magnetospheres, energy is stored and released, and the plasma circulates driven by the solar wind above and the ionosphere below, and possibly by forces in between. Substorms have now been reported at Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. Reconnection, in which oppositely directed magnetic field lines become connected, is certainly involved in all of these substorms, but they may be quite differently driven. Dayside reconnection is not expected to be equally efficient at all the planets, and plasma sources in the magnetosphere differ. By comparing the behavior of similar processes in these different settings, we obtain a deeper understanding of how magnetospheres work.
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