電漿層

電漿層，或內磁層是地球的磁層中包含低能量（冷）電漿的區域，它的位置在電離層之上，電漿層外面的邊界被稱為電漿層頂，在定義上該處的電漿密度已經降低了一個數量級。

電漿層是1963年唐·卡彭特（）在分析波的資料時發現的。

傳統上，電漿層被認為是行為受到地磁良好控制，並伴隨著地球自轉的低溫電漿微粒。然而，最近的人造衛星觀測顯示出密度的不規則性，會形成羽毛狀或biteouts；它也顯示電漿層不會永遠隨著地球自轉。

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參考資料

• Carpenter, D. L., Whistler evidence of a 'knee' in the magnetospheric ionization density profile, J. Geophys. Res., 68, 1675-1682, 1963.
• Nishida, A., Formation of plasmapause, or magnetospheric plasma knee, by combined action of magnetospheric convections and plasma escape from the tail, J. Geophys. Res., 71, 5669, 1966.
• Sandel, B. R., et al., Extreme ultraviolet imager observations of the structure and dynamics of the plasmasphere, Space Sci. Rev., 109, 25, 2003.

外部連結

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160828213813/http://plasmasphere.nasa.gov/ NASA web site]
• [http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/glossary/plasmasphere.html University of Michigan description]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070109034431/http://www.cs.uah.edu/visgig/research/research.html University of Alabama in Huntsville research]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20180517232808/http://pluto.space.swri.edu/image/glossary/plasmasphere.html Southwest Research Institute description]
• [http://euv.lpl.arizona.edu/euv/index.html IMAGE Extreme Ultraviolet Imager]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160603042218/http://pluto.space.swri.edu/image/plasmasphere_images.html EUV Images of the plasmasphere]