New Insights into How Magnetic Lines Around Earth Reconnect (IMAGE)
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This is a sketch of the Earth's magnetosphere showing where reconnection occurs between oppositely-directed magnetic fields. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.L. Burch at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, TX, and colleagues was titled, "Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space."
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James Burch
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