Abstract The data from the PHOBOS-2 mission has triggered renewed interest in the comparative analysis of plasma and field observations at Mars and similar observations from its practically nonmagnetic sister, the planet Venus. Many of these comparative analysis continue to address the still unresolved question of the strength of the weak intrinsic field of Mars, since differences between the Mars and Venus solar wind interactions are considered to possibly signify the relative importance of the Martian field. In this paper, observations of selected features, including the bow shocks, magnetosheaths, magnetotails, ion environments, and ionospheres, are compared for cases where similar data are available. It is concluded that the observations, as a whole, indicate that there is a great deal of similarity between the two obstacles to the solar wind.


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    Title :

    Comparative studies of the solar wind interation with weakly magnetized planets


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 12 , 9 ; 191-203


    Publication date :

    1992-01-01


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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