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A detailed examination of Mariner 5 magnetic field data reveals evidence for a boundary layer beginning in the dayside ionosphere, and a magnetotail much like the terrestrial magnetotail in accord with Venera measurements.
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C. T. Russell (1976) studied this question.
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