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StephenPrivitera
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How do solar wind particles get trapped in a planet's magnetosphere? The particles travel along the Sun's magnetic field lines, right? And then they switch to traveling along the planet's field lines? How?
When they get trapped, are they still supersonic?
Is it correct to say that outside of the magnetopause, charged particles are dominated by the Sun's magnetic field?
When they get trapped, are they still supersonic?
Is it correct to say that outside of the magnetopause, charged particles are dominated by the Sun's magnetic field?