Venus Express observations of an atypically distant bow shock during the passage of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection

On 10–11 September 2006 the Venus Express magnetometer detected a very strong Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) event with an average field about 2 times higher than that of a typical ICME at 0.72 AU. While the effective obstacle to the solar wind is compressed to a smaller dimension durin... View More