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Term: Magnetotail
Definition:

Earth's magnetotail drags out behind it, shaped by the flow of the solar wind on the night side of Earth. It extends over a hundred thousand miles and can collect much incoming energy from the sun, before releasing it toward Earth or further down the tail.

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Term: Magnetotail
Definition:

The region on the night side of the bodywhere the magnetic filed is stretched backwards by the force of the solarwind. For Earth, the magnetotail begins at a night-side radial distance of10 Re (X > -10Re).

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