{"title":"The Magnetosphere","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108290135.013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The magnetosphere is the interface between the interplanetary environment and the upper Earth's atmosphere. It is a vast region evolving under the control of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetosphere is filled with a collision-free plasma, continuously out of thermodynamic equilibrium, turbulent, unstable, which undergoes almost daily global reconfigurations. The magnetosphere has only one visual manifestation, but of great aesthetic quality: the polar aurora.","PeriodicalId":249186,"journal":{"name":"Geomagnetism, Aeronomy and Space Weather","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"25","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Geomagnetism, Aeronomy and Space Weather","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290135.013","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The magnetosphere is the interface between the interplanetary environment and the upper Earth's atmosphere. It is a vast region evolving under the control of the Earth's magnetic field. The magnetosphere is filled with a collision-free plasma, continuously out of thermodynamic equilibrium, turbulent, unstable, which undergoes almost daily global reconfigurations. The magnetosphere has only one visual manifestation, but of great aesthetic quality: the polar aurora.