This is a drawing of the Earth's magnetosphere. The plasma sheet
is highlighted in yellow. Click on image for full size The
Plasma Sheet The plasma sheet is just that, a sheet of plasma
that extends down the magnetotail dividing the two lobes of the
Earth's magnetic field. This outer plasma is hotter than the
plasma in the plasmasphere, but is considered low energy when
compared to the particles in the Van Allen radiation belts. Shop
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in: Plasma is known as the fourth state of matter. The other
three states are solid, liquid and gas.In most cases, matter on
Earth has electrons that orbit around the atom's nucleus. The
negatively charged...more The plasmasphere is a donut-shaped
region inside the Earth's magnetosphere. It is basically an
extension of the ionosphere, or the topmost part of the Earth's
atmosphere. The magnetic field