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    • Title Solar wind entry at low latitudes
    • Released 24/10/2012 3:57 pm
    • Copyright AOES Medialab
    • Description

      When Earth’s magnetic field and the interplanetary magnetic field are aligned, for example in a northward orientation as indicated by the white arrow in this graphic, Kelvin–Helmholtz waves are generated at low (equatorial) latitudes.


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    • Activity Space Science
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    • Keywords Space environment , Solar system , Solar wind , Earth

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