Plasma sheet

Artistic rendition of a magnetosphere. Sizes are not to scale.

In the magnetosphere, the plasma sheet is a sheet-like region of denser (0.3-0.5 ions/cm³ versus 0.01-0.02 in the lobes) hot plasma and lower magnetic field near the equatorial plane, between the magnetosphere's north and south lobes.^[1]

A magnetosphere is produced by the interaction of a stream of charged particles, such as solar wind, with a planet's (or similar body's) magnetic field. All planets with intrinsic magnetic fields, including Earth, are surrounded by a magnetosphere.^[1]

References

1 2 Tadanori Ondoh; Katsuhide Marubashi (2001). Science of Space Environment. IOS Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-4-274-90384-7. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

Magnetospherics

Submagnetosphere	Atmospheric circulation Aurora Earth's magnetic field Geosphere Jet stream Polar wind

Earth's magnetosphere	Birkeland current Ionosphere Magnetopause Magnetosheath Magnetosphere Magnetosphere chronology Magnetosphere particle motion Plasmasphere Ring current Van Allen radiation belt

Solar wind	Coronal cloud Coronal mass ejection Geomagnetic storm Heliopause Heliosphere Heliospheric current sheet Interplanetary magnetic field Solar flare Space weather

Satellites	Full list Cluster II Double Star ERG (2016) Geotail IMAGE MMS (2015) Polar THEMIS Van Allen Probes WIND

Research projects	HAARP SHARE Unwin Radar SuperDARN

Other magnetospheres	Ganymedian Hermian Jovian Lunar Neptunian Saturnian Uranian

Related topics	Flux tube Gas torus Lunar swirls Planetary rings Jupiter Neptune Saturn Uranus

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