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Earth's bow shock on 22 December 2000


Date: 21 December 2000
Satellite: Cluster
Depicts: Illustration of Cluster near the bow shock
Copyright: ESA

The four Cluster spacecraft crossed the bow shock into the solar wind at around 08:25 UT. The Cluster orbit is shown as a dotted line when the spacecraft are inside the magnetosphere and the magnetosheath and as a solid line when they are in the solar wind.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
20-Apr-2026 22:43 UT

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