Horizontal slice across the ion charge density of the mini-magnetosphere, which emerges above the surface of the Moon as a result of the solar wind plasma interaction with a lunar magnetic anomaly.

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Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell Simulations of the Solar Wind Interaction with Lunar Magnetic Anomalies
J. Deca, A. Divin, G. Lapenta, B. Lembège, S. Markidis, and M. Horányi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 151102 (2014)

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