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magnetopause

The sharp boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind of interplanetary space. The magnetopause represents the outer termination of the earth's atmosphere and extends from a distance of several earth-radii in the sunward direction to a much larger and rather indefinite distance in the anti-sunward direction, resulting in a cometlike shape with a long tail directed away from the sun.

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