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Thursday, October 7, 2021

Standing Waves Unexpectedly Discovered at The Edge of Earth's Magnetosphere [ScienceAlert, October 2021]

Title:
Standing Waves Unexpectedly Discovered at The Edge of Earth's Magnetosphere
 
Author:
Michelle Starr
 
Published:
ScienceAlert, 7 October 2021
 
From the article:
Space physicist Martin Archer of Imperial College London has been exploring the boundary of Earth's magnetosphere for several years.  
 
"Understanding the boundaries of any system is a key problem," he says.
 
Also see
 
Archer, M.O., Hartinger, M.D., Plaschke, F. et al. Magnetopause ripples going against the flow form azimuthally stationary surface waves. Nature Communications, 12, 5697 (2021).