Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 30, 2012 #1 Share Posted December 30, 2012 A new state of Venus's ionosphere Observations from NASA's Pioneer Venus orbiter, which reached Venus in 1978, suggested that Venus's ionosphere had two states: a magnetized state with a large- scale horizontal magnetic field and an unmagnetized state with no large-scale magnetic field but with numerous small-scale thin magnetic structures known as flux ropes. Venus's ionosphere was observed to be in the unmagnetized state most of the time, but strong solar wind pressure shifted it to the magnetized state.Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted December 30, 2012 #2 Share Posted December 30, 2012 (edited) Sorry Waspie, but you forgot to add the link: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-state-venus-ionosphere.html . Edited December 30, 2012 by Abramelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 30, 2012 Author #3 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Sorry Waspie, but you forgot to add the link Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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