Re: Earths difficult?

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 06:25:54 MST

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Mike Lorrey:
>No, the magnetosphere has little to do with atmospheric retention

The ionosphere is strongly affected by the magnetosphere.

(for example Earth)
http://www.eiscat.com/raw/regions.html

About atmospheric layers
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/Atmosphere/Older/Atmospheric_Layers.html

and
... see papers by Bagenal for good descriptions of the coupling between
the ionosphere, the plasmasphere, the magnetosphere for solar system
bodies.

Amara

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Amara Graps, PhD
Istituto di Fisica delle Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Roma, ITALIA
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