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The region around a celestial body in which its magnetic field strongly controls charged-particle motion.
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- planetary magnetosphere
- enter the magnetosphere
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The ship entered the planet’s magnetosphere on the night side.
Charged particles gathered along the distorted magnetosphere.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular: magnetosphere; plural: magnetospheres. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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