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===Magnetic switchbacks=== [[File:Switchbacks on the Sun.gif|thumb|[[Parker Solar Probe]] observed switchbacks โ traveling disturbances in the solar wind that caused the magnetic field to bend back on itself.]] [[Magnetic switchback]]s are sudden reversals in the [[magnetic field]] of the solar wind.<ref name="New Insight">{{cite web |last1=Hatfield |first1=Miles |title=New Insight Into Parker Solar Probe's Early Observations |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/new-insight-into-parker-solar-probes-early-observations |website=NASA |date=29 April 2020}}{{PD-notice}}</ref> They can also be described as traveling disturbances in the solar wind that caused the magnetic field to bend back on itself. They were first observed by the NASAโESA mission ''[[Ulysses (spacecraft)|Ulysses]]'', the first spacecraft to fly over the [[Sun]]'s poles.<ref name="nasa-Switchbacks">{{cite web |last1=Hatfield |first1=Miles |title=Switchbacks Science: Explaining Parker Solar Probe's Magnetic Puzzle |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/switchbacks-science-explaining-parker-solar-probe-s-magnetic-puzzle |website=NASA |access-date=31 July 2022 |date=8 March 2021}}{{PD-notice}}</ref><ref name=fisk-casper>{{cite journal |last1=Fisk |first1=L. A. |last2=Kasper |first2=J. C. |title=Global Circulation of the Open Magnetic Flux of the Sun |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters |date=1 May 2020 |volume=894 |issue=1 |pages=L4 |doi=10.3847/2041-8213/ab8acd|bibcode=2020ApJ...894L...4F |s2cid=218640684 |doi-access=free }}[[File:CC BY icon.svg|50px]] Material was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0]</ref> [[Parker Solar Probe]] observed first switchbacks in 2018.<ref name="nasa-Switchbacks"/>
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