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In Situ Evidence of a Twisted Loop-like Magnetic Flux Rope at Mars: A MAVEN and Tianwen-1 Close Conjunction

  • Authors: Yuanzheng Wen, 渊正 文, Jasper S. Halekas, Takuya Hara, 拓也 原, Han-Wen Shen, 涵文 沈, Shaosui Xu, 绍穗 徐, Chi Zhang, 驰 张, Thomas E. Cravens, Junfeng Qin, Jiawei Gao, 佳维 高, Charles F. Bowers, Long Cheng, 龙 程, Kathleen. G. Hanley, David A. Brain, David L. Mitchell, Christian X. Mazelle, Jared R. Espley, James P. McFadden, Shannon M. Curry

Yuanzheng Wen et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

An overview of magnetic-field measurements where MAVEN and TW-1 traversed during a time interval on 2022 September 25. (a) The spacecraft trajectory (rainbow line) projected onto the modeled crustal-field map at 300 km (J. Gao et al. 2021). Panels (b) and (d): the time profiles show the observed magnetic-field strength (∣B∣; black) together with the crustal-field model (blue; J. Gao et al. 2021). Panels (c) and (e): the observed magnetic-field components in MSO coordinates. (f) The spacecraft altitude. (g) The spacecraft solar zenith angle (SZA). (h) MAVEN and TW-1 distance. The ionospheric FR was observed between the magenta dashed vertical lines. The magnet and black crosses mark the FRs observed by TW-1 and MAVEN.

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