The Earth's Magnetotail

The solar wind sweeps the earth's magnetic field into a vast tail. Disruptions of the tail generate bright auroras at the earth and propel great bodies of magnetized gas into interplanetary space

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 254 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “The Earth's Magnetotail” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 254 No. 3 (), p. 40
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0386-40
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