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  • noun The inner region of the magnetosphere, containing relatively cold, dense plasma, above the ionosphere

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Examples

  • But when she hit the outer fringes of the ionosphere -- that upper layer of rarified protons, the rapidly moving current of high velocity ions known as the plasmasphere -- she bucked like a kicked horse.

    Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

  • The plasmasphere here is relatively "dense" and culturally speaking, pretty low-energy.

    Matthew Anderson: America's Folly 2010

  • The plasmasphere here is relatively "dense" and culturally speaking, pretty low-energy.

    Matthew Anderson: America's Folly 2010

  • The plasmasphere here is relatively "dense" and culturally speaking, pretty low-energy.

    Matthew Anderson: America's Folly 2010

  • I., Comparison of the measured and modelled electron densities and temperatures in the ionosphere and plasmasphere during 20-30 January 1993, Annales Geophysicae, Vol.

    IPCC and Solar Correlations « Climate Audit 2007

  • The discovery of the phenomena of the reduced and nonlocal electron temperature conductivity of the plasmasphere and the topside ionosphere Pavlov et al., 2000 solves this problem.

    IPCC and Solar Correlations « Climate Audit 2007

  • The additional heating of electrons found brings the measured and modelled Te into agreement in the plasmasphere and into very large disagreement in the topside ionosphere up to 1000-2000 K if the classical Spitzer-Harm electron heat flux is used.

    IPCC and Solar Correlations « Climate Audit 2007

  • The plasmasphere of Eisberg differed from that of Earth in two ways.

    Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

  • "We'll have a bitch of a job getting through the plasmasphere, though," said the chief.

    Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

  • And, since there was no ozonosphere to block out the UV radiation from the primary, the thickness of the ionosphere beneath the plasmasphere was greater.

    Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

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