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Simulation of Earth’s foreshock during calm space weather conditions
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- Title Simulation of Earth’s foreshock during calm space weather conditions
- Released: 18/11/2019
- Length 00:00:26
- Language English
- Footage Type Graphic
- Copyright Vlasiator team, University of Helsinki
- Description
This movie from the Vlasiator computer model shows the kind of simple magnetic wave pattern that dominates the foreshock above Earth – the first region of our planet’s magnetic environment that solar wind particles encounter – when space weather is calm. The size of the waves, and therefore their frequency, is the same throughout this region.