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Magnetic Reconnection in the Near Venusian Magnetotail

Coates, A. J.; Fedorov, A.; Barabash, S. +14 more

Observations with the Venus Express magnetometer and low-energy particle detector revealed magnetic field and plasma behavior in the near-Venus wake that is symptomatic of magnetic reconnection, a process that occurs in Earth’s magnetotail but is not expected in the magnetotail of a nonmagnetized planet such as Venus. On 15 May 2006, the plasma fl…