Appendix V
The Earth’s Magnetosphere
The following pages on the Earth’s magnetosphere were written by Dr. Sten Odenwald as part of the public
education for NASA’s IMAGE mission. IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration)
was an Earth-orbiting spacecraft designed to produced images of various parts of the Earth’s magnetosphere.
The figures labeled 5-2, 5-3, and 5-4 were taken by the IMAGE spacecraft.
Source:http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/for_educators/learn/textbooks.html