Regions of the Magnetosphere (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Regions of the Magnetosphere

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llustration of the magnetosphere shows its different regions. The white arrows show the path that individual ions take as they are carried into the magnetosphere by the polar wind and then move from region to region in the magnetosphere.

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Rick Chappell

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