MAGNETOSPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnetosphere mean? 

• MAGNETOSPHERE (noun)
  The noun MAGNETOSPHERE has 1 sense:

1. the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field

  Familiarity information: MAGNETOSPHERE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNETOSPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("magnetosphere" is a kind of...):

flux; magnetic field; magnetic flux (the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle)

 Context examples 

This event, called magnetic reconnection, occurs in magnetospheres across our solar system.

(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)

By studying Jupiter's magnetosphere, scientists will gain a better understanding about how Jupiter's magnetic field is generated.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

Juno also is designed to study the polar magnetosphere and the origin of Jupiter's powerful auroras—its northern and southern lights.

(First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission, NASA)

The scientists, led by Eun-Hwa Kim, a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, examined a type of wave that travels through the magnetosphere.

(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)

The sun sends out millions of high-energy particles, the solar wind, which races out across the solar system before encountering Earth and its magnetosphere, a protective magnetic field surrounding the planet.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn – the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons – will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

During these flybys, Juno will probe beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and study its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)

During these flybys, Juno is probing beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and studying its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

It is also believed that the early moon had a magnetosphere - a magnetic field which would have deflected the sun's deadly electromagnetic radiation - similar to Earth's.

(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An orbiting planet moving through the magnetosphere of the brown dwarf could be generating a current, but scientists will have to map the aurora to figure out its source.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)