magnetotail: A comet-like extension of a planet's magnetosphere formed on the planet's dark night side by the interaction of the solar wind and the magnetosphere. It can extend hundreds of planetary radii away from the Sun.
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Magnetotail- the portion of a planetary magnetosphere which is pushed away from the sun by the solar wind ...
Magnetotail--The long stretched-out nightside of the magnetosphere, the region in which substorms begin. It starts about 8 Earth radii (RE) nightward of the Earth and has been observed to distances of at least 220 RE.
Magnetotail - The part of the magnetosphere of a planet stretched behind the planet by the force of the solar wind ...
Magnetotail The extreme extension of a magnetosphere, on the side of a planet opposite the Sun, caused by the solar wind. See the image on the right above.
Mass The total amount of matter in a body. Mass remains the same even with changes in gravity.
magnetotail
The portion of a planetary which is pushed in the direction of the solar wind.
magnetotail
The extension of the magnetosphere in the antisunward direction as a result of interaction with the solar wind. In the inner magnetotail, the field lines maintain a roughly dipolar configuration.
The mission consisted of three spacecraft: the Charge Composition Explorer (CCE) ; the Ion Release Module (IRM), which provided multiple ion releases in the solar wind, the magnetosheath, and the magnetotail, with in situ diagnostics of each; ...
# Dynamo action involving plasma squeezed earthward by sudden convulsions of the magnetotail ("magnetic substorms").
The magnetotail consists of twin bundles of oppositely directed magnetic field (the "tail lobes"), directed earthwards in the northern half of the tail and away from Earth in the southern half.
New measurements from the Cluster mission for the first time now can determine unambiguously the scale sizes of magnetic reconnection in the earth's magnetosphere, both on the dayside magnetopause and in the magnetotail.
The magnetospheric plasma has an abundance of electrons: some are magnetically trapped, some reside in the magnetotail, and some exist in the upward extension of the ionosphere, which may extend (with diminishing density) some 25, ...
Voyager measured the magnetotail to at least 10 million kilometers (6.2 million miles) behind the planet.
The part stretching out away from the Sun is Earth's magnetotail. It extends downwind a great distance, equal to tens of times the radius of Earth. The electromagnetic radiation from the Sun affects Earth's entire ionosphere in daylight.
Survey ring and dust interactions with the electromagnetic environment, study interactions of icy satellites with magnetosphere, investigate structure of magnetotail and dynamic processes therein.
Most frequently used in connection with the Earth's and other planet's magnetic fields. The solar wind compresses the field on the sunward side and drags it out into the magnetotail on the opposite side.
by the solar wind (ions and electrons emitted from the sun). It extends into space from 60 to 37,280 miles (100 to 60,000 km) towards the Sun, and over 186,500 miles (300,000 km) away from the Sun (nightward), forming the Earth's magnetotail.
and is influenced by the solar wind (ions and electrons emitted from the sun). It extends into space from 60 to 37,280 miles (100 to 60,000 km) towards the Sun, and over 186,500 miles (300,000 km) away from the Sun, forming the Earth's magnetotail.
 See also: Solar, Earth, Field, Magnetic Field, Sun
  
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