Open AccessResearch Spotlight: Electrons in plasma sheet absorbed by lunar surface
Author(s) -
Tretkoff Ernie
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/eo091i045p00428-06
Subject(s) - plasma sheet , magnetosphere , plasma , solar wind , earth (classical element) , astrobiology , physics , geophysics , astronomy , quantum mechanics
For a few days around the time of each full Moon, the Moon passes through Earth's plasma sheet, the plasma‐filled region separating the two lobes of Earth's magnetotail. In this region, plasma conditions are different from those the Moon encounters in the solar wind, outside of Earth's magnetosphere