plasma sheet

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plasma sheet [′plaz·mə ‚shēt]

(geophysics)

A region of relatively hot plasma outside the plasmasphere, which reaches, during quiet times, from an altitude of about 30,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) to at least past the moon's orbit in a long tail extending away from the sun; composed of particles with typical thermal energies of 2 to 4 kiloelectronvolts.

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No references found			The 5 hour variation appears to be linked to the rotational period of Jupiter's magnetic field and the movement of Ganymede through the tilted plasma sheet that surrounds the planet," said Dr. Ganymede's magnetosphere cause auroral bright spots on Jupiter by Asian News International The scientists also confirmed that when the magnetic field carried by the plasma sheet points opposite to the direction of Earth's magnetic field, material within the sheet can penetrate Earth's protective magnetic bubble. Predicting geomagnetic storms. (Astronomy) by Science News It is fed by low-energy charged particles that are lifted into space over Earth's poles, carried behind the Earth in its magnetic tail, but then jerked around 180 degrees by a kink in the magnetic fields that boosts the particles back toward Earth in a region called the plasma sheet. Scientists identify new region of magnetosphere by Asian News International			plasma cloud plasma desorption mass spectrometry plasma diode plasma display Plasma Drilling Plasma Engine plasma etching plasma frequency Plasma Furnace plasma generator plasma gun plasma instability plasma jet plasma mantle Plasma Membrane Plasma Metallurgy plasma oscillations plasma physics plasma pinch plasma processing plasma propulsion plasma radiation Plasma Reactor plasma rocket plasma sheath plasma sheet plasma spraying Plasma Substitute plasma tail plasma thromboplastin antecedent plasma thromboplastin component Plasma Torch Plasma Treatment Plasma Turbulence plasma TV plasma wave plasma, biological Plasma, Blood Plasma, Solid-State plasma-addressed liquid crystal plasma-arc cutting plasma-arc welding plasma-jet excitation plasma-source ion implantation plasmacyte plasmagel plasmagene plasmalemma Plasmalogen plasmals plasmapause			plasma proteolytic enzyme plasma proteolytic enzyme plasma prothrombin conversion factor plasma prothrombin conversion factor plasma prothrombin conversion factor plasma prothrombin conversion factor plasma prothrombin conversion factor Plasma Quark-Gluon plasma radiation Plasma Reactor plasma refilling rate plasma renin activity plasma renin activity plasma renin assay plasma renin assay Plasma Renin Substrate Reactivity Plasma Research Laboratory Plasma Retinol Binding Protein Plasma Rich in Growth Factor Plasma Rico en Factores de Crecimiento plasma rocket Plasma Science & Fusion Center Plasma screen Plasma screen Plasma screen televisions Plasma screen tv plasma screens Plasma Separation Process Plasma Separator Tube Plasma sheath plasma sheet Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer plasma sheets Plasma Shock Wave Lithotripsy Plasma Source Instrument Plasma Source Ion Implantation Plasma Sources Science and Technology Plasma Spray Plasma Spray Plasma Spray Plasma Spray Unit Plasma spraying Plasma spraying plasma substitute plasma substitute plasma substitute PLAsma SupraThermal Ion Composition Plasma Synthetic Jet Actuator Plasma tail Plasma tail Plasma tail Plasma Technology Training School Plasma television Plasma Tetra Ethyl Oxysilane Plasma Theory and Simulation Group Plasma thrombopalastin antecent Plasma thrombopalastin antecent Plasma thrombopalastin antecent plasma thromboplastic antecedent deficiency plasma thromboplastic antecedent deficiency plasma thromboplastic antecedent deficiency

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