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This schematic diagram illustrates Cluster's orbit at the beginning of June 2001, after orbital manoeuvres. (The view is of the magnetosphere from above the North pole.)
The interspacecraft distance is about 2000 km and the tetrahedron is located at apogee. The Cluster orbit is indicated in red.