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A magnetosphere is not a typical terrestrial phenomenon. Instead, magnetospheres can be found around all magnetized bodies surrounded by a plasma flow. Even around unmagnetized bodies (comets, planets without a magnetic field) a cavity is formed by the interplanetary magnetic field frozen into the deflected solar wind flow. In the solar system, all planets except Mars and Venus have a magnetosphere. Although they are different sizes, for most of them the shape and the properties are similar to those in the terrestrial magnetosphere. Special features are the large size and the flat inner structure of the Jovian magnetosphere and the oscillation of Neptune’s magnetosphere between a pole-on and an Earth-like.
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Kallenrode, MB. (1998). Planetary Magnetospheres. In: Space Physics. Advanced Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03653-2_12
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