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Solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere

author: Illustration Grégoire Cirade/Novapix

reference: a-sol99-00006

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 19 cm

Diagram illustrating the solar wind (blue arrows) around the Earth's magnetosphere. Magnetosphere forms a shield that protects the Earth from the radiation of the solar wind. Some of the particles entering the magnetosphere, following magnetic field lines to the poles, are forming auroras.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - ILLUSTRATION - MAGNETIC FIELD - MAGNETOSPHERE - PLANET - SOLAR WIND - STAR - SUN - VAN ALLEN -