Assertion: magnetic field | /r/CapableOf | reconnect on the dayside of the earth
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text: The idea here is that magnetic fields from the Sun and the Earth reconnect on the dayside of the Earth (the side facing the Sun), after which the solar wind carries the reconnected magnetic flux along the magnetopause (the boundary of the magnetosphere) to the nightside, resulting in a build-up of magnetic energy in the tail of the magnetosphere.