Essential Guide to the EU – Chapter 8
Current Sheets, Perpendicular Currents and Electric Circuits
« Essential Guide to the EU – Chapter 8
Current Sheets, Perpendicular Currents and Electric Circuits
Artist’s interpretation of Saturn’s plasma sheet, based on data from Cassini’s Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument.The plasma sheet, separating the upper and lower magnetosphere halves, thins gradually toward the nightside of the planet. THe magnetopause indicates the flow of the deflected solar wind. Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Johns Hopkins University Applied PHysics Laboratory