Multipoint Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Martian Magnetotail Triggered by an Interplanetary Magnetic Field Rotation
Yuanzheng Wen et al 2025 ApJL 982 L42
With the MAVEN spacecraft positioned in Mars’s magnetotail and Tianwen-1 in the upstream solar wind, researchers showed how interplanetary magnetic field rotation drives plasma processes in the magnetotail.