This artist rendering shows how Kelvin-Helmholtz instability waves in Earth's magnetic tail might propagate through time and space. Credit: Quanqi Shi

Simultaneous satellite observations from different distances of Earth's magnetic tail offer insight into how these instability waves evolve through time and space.

Citation:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JA025183
Ling, Y., Shi, Q., Shen, X.‐C., Tian, A., Li, W., Tang, B., et al.(2018).
Observations of Kelvin‐Helmholtz waves in the Earth's magnetotail near the lunar orbit. /Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics/, 123, 3836-3847.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025183