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Line 1: [[Image:Heliospheric-current-~~sheet-edit~~sheet_edit.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|Heliospheric current sheet]] The '''Heliospheric current sheet''' (HCS), is the largest structure in the [[Solar System]] [http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/22apr_currentsheet.htm], resulting from the influence of the Sun's rotating magnetic field on the [[plasma]] in the [[interplanetary medium]] ([[Solar Wind]]) [http://quake.stanford.edu/~wso/gifs/HCS.html]. The [[current sheet]] occurs in Sun's equatorial plane where the Sun's magnetic field changes polarity from plus (north) to minus (south). The thickness of the current sheet is about 10,000km.

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