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Density transition in Earth's bow shock


Date: 05 April 2004
Satellite: Cluster
Depicts: Density Diagram

Density transition from downstream to upstream. The green line is the hyperbolic tangent fit; red vertical lines show the density transition scale [Bale et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265004 (2003)].
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