interplanetary plasma

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• Plasma receiver — A plasma receiver is an instrument capable of detecting the vibrations in outer space plasma.It may have been Donald Gurnett, University of Iowa Professor of Physics, who invented the Plasma receiver. Gurnett has been intimately involved in the… …   Wikipedia

• Interplanetary medium — [ heliospheric current sheet results from the influence of the Sun s rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the interplanetary medium. [http://quake.stanford.edu/ wso/gifs/HCS.html] ] The interplanetary medium is the material which fills the… …   Wikipedia

• plasma — plasmatic /plaz mat ik/, plasmic, adj. /plaz meuh/, n. 1. Anat., Physiol. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements. 2. Cell Biol. cytoplasm. 3. whey. 4. a green, faintly translucent chalcedony. 5. Physics. a …   Universalium

• interplanetary medium — ▪ astronomy       thinly scattered matter that exists between the planets and other bodies of the solar system, as well as the forces (e.g., magnetic and electric) that pervade this region of space. The material components of the interplanetary… …   Universalium

• Interplanetary Magnetic Field — The Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) is the term for the Sun’s magnetic field carried by the solar wind among the planets of the Solar System. [ heliospheric current sheet is a three dimensional form of a Parker spiral that results from the… …   Wikipedia

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• Plasma scaling — The parameters of plasmas, including their spatial and temporal extent, vary by many orders of magnitude. Nevertheless, there are significant similarities in the behaviors of apparently disparate plasmas. It is not only of theoretical interest to …   Wikipedia

• interplanetary gas — noun a rarefied flow of gas and charged particles (plasma) that stream from the sun and form the solar wind • Hypernyms: ↑plasma • Substance Holonyms: ↑solar wind • Part Holonyms: ↑interplanetary medium …   Useful english dictionary

• Double layer (plasma) — This article is about the structure in plasma physics. For other uses, see Double layer. Saturnian aurora whose reddish colour is characteristic of ionized hydrogen plasma.[1] Powered by the Saturnian equivalent of (filamentary) Birkeland… …   Wikipedia