The atlas · Space environment · The Earth’s shield
Outline · being written
The magnetosphere
The bubble the magnetic field makes in the solar wind, squashed on the day side and stretched on the night side.
- Page type
- A lesson, led by a working diagram
- Collection
- Space environment, the Earth’s shield
- Where
- Around the Earth
- Status
- Planned and outlined. Every fact in it will be checked against a named source and listed on Sources before it goes up.
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