Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

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Planetary Magnetospheres 529

FIGURE 9 Schematic comparison of the
magnetospheres of Jupiter, Earth, and Mercury.
Relative to the Jupiter schematic, the one for Earth
is blown up by a factor of 40, and the one for
Mercury is blown up by a factor of 400. The
planetary radii are given in Table 1. Credit: Steve
Bartlett.

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