Meridional cut from an advanced three-dimensional magnetosphere simulation (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Meridional cut from an advanced three-dimensional magnetosphere simulation

Caption

The Earth is at the center of the black circle that is the inner boundary at 2.5 Earth radii. The white lines are magnetic field lines. The colors show density. The blue rectangle indicates where the kinetic model is used, which is coupled with the global magnetohydrodynamic model.

Credit

Chen, Yuxi & Toth, Gabor & Hietala, Heli & Vines, Sarah & Zou, Ying & Nishimura, Yukitoshi & Silveira, Marcos & Guo, Zhifang & Lin, Yu & Markidis, Stefano

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