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Influence Of Upstream Solar Wind On Magnetic Field Distribution In The Martian Nightside Ionosphere

by Keith Cowing

This study is led by Postdoctoral researcher Jiawei Gao from IGGCAS. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global dipolar magnetic field; the planet does have locally distributed crustal magnetic fields.

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