The plasmasphere extension of Earth's atmosphere: a perspective from the Van Allen probes
Earth's plasmasphere persists as an extension of the ionosphere into space. The toroidal region of plasma is shaped by electric and magnetic forces in the terrestrial magnetosphere. As a dense population of cold plasma, the plasmasphere interacts with particles in the hot ring current and energ...
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University of Iowa
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6405 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7906&context=etd |