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Direct Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind Current Sheets near Mars

  • Authors: Chi Zhang, Chuanfei Dong, Xinmin Li, Han-Wen Shen, Jasper Halekas, Tai Phan, Christian Mazelle, Yuki Harada, Hongyang Zhou, Jiawei Gao, Liang Wang, Shannon Curry, David L. Mitchell

Chi Zhang et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 .

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Overview of the event during 2025 June 15. (a) MAVEN location in the ﹩{X}_{{\rm{MSO}}}-\sqrt{{Y}_{{\rm{MSO}}}^{2}+{Z}_{{\rm{MSO}}}^{2}}﹩ plane. (b) MAVEN location in the ﹩Y{Z}_{{\rm{MSO}}}﹩ plane. (c) Ion energy spectrogram measured by SWIA. (d) Electron energy spectrogram measured by SWEA. (e) Magnetic field components in MSO coordinates. (f) Proton number density. (g) Proton bulk velocity in MSO coordinates. (h) Proton temperature. (i) Electron pitch-angle distribution for energies between 100 eV and 1 keV.

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