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7 Concluding Thoughts
Pages 77-78

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... In similar fashion, rotating solid and gaseous planets form, and many of these also support dynamo action, producing magnetic fields. Ultraviolet and x-ray photons from the central stars partially ionize the upper atmospheres of the planets as well as any interstellar neutral atoms that traverse the systems.
From page 78...
... Understanding requires that the processes be investigated in diverse plasma environments. Important to this investigation are space missions to the magnetospheres of other planets as well as that of Earth, missions to sample the properties of the heliosphere, missions to observe the astonishing fine structure of the active Sun, and multispacecraft missions to sample the structure of magnetopauses, shock transitions, and the magnetic reconnection processes.


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