Question: What and where is Earth’s Magnetosphere?
Answer:
The Earth’s magnetic field is much like a magnet. In the diagram, imagine the bar magnet running from north to south through the center of the Earth. Like a magnet, there is a magnetic force field the moves out of the north pole of the magnet and around to the south pole where the force enters.
Where Earth’s magnetic field reaches far into space. The space around Earth controlled by its magnetic field is called its magnetosphere.
One could call Earth’s magnetic field a geomagnet.
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