The relationship between the magnetic field in the Martian magnetotail and upstream solar wind parameters

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Sep 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....9917199r&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A9, p. 17,199-17,204

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Data Acquisition, Mars (Planet), Planetary Magnetotails, Solar Planetary Interactions, Solar Wind, Mathematical Models, Plasma Density, Pressure Effects, Radiation Pressure, Shock Waves

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Magnetic field data measured by the MAGMA instrument in the Martian magnetotail lobes are compared with the ram pressure of the upstream solar wind observed by the TAUS instrument in the circular orbits of the Phobos 2 spacecraft. High correlation was found between the magnetic field intensity in the Martian magnetotail lobes and the solar wind ram pressure. From this relationship the average flaring angle of the Martian magnetotail was determined as approximately 13 deg, and the average magnetosonic Mach number was estimated as approximately 5. The observed relationship between the Martian magnetotail magnetic field intensity and the solar wind magnetic field reflects the correlation of the solar wind magnetic field to the ram pressure providing a value of approximately 7 for the average Alfvenic Mach number. The flaring angle obtained for the Martian magnetotail was found to be an intermediate value between the flaring angle of the magnetotail of the Earth and that of Venus at comparable distances.

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