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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 2.

Time-series overview of the FR observed by TW-1 and MAVEN. Panels (a)–(b): magnetic-field components in MSO coordinates. (c) Spacecraft altitude. (d) Distance between MAVEN and TW-1. (e) STATIC ion energy spectrogram. SWEA electron measurements of (f) omnidirectional energy spectra and (g) pitch-angle distributions (PADs) of ionospheric photoelectrons with energies between 20 and 60 eV. (h) Magnetic topology score. (i) TW-1 magnetic field in the LMN coordinates. Panels (j)–(k): the hodograms of TW-1 magnetic-field components in maximum–intermediate (LM), and maximum–minimum (LN) planes. (l) MAVEN magnetic field in the LMN coordinates. Panels (m)–(n): the hodograms of MAVEN magnetic-field components in LM and LN planes.

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