Magnetotails in the Solar System

All magnetized planets in our solar system (Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) interact strongly with the solar wind and possess well developed magnetotails. It is not only the strongly magnetized planets that have magnetotails. Mars and Venus have no global intrinsic magnetic field, yet they possess induced magnetotails. Comets have magnetotails that are formed by the draping of the interplanetary magnetic field. In the case...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118842340
• ISBN13: 9781118842348
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: American Geophysical Union
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"