Abstract
An examination of observations of the position of the terminator bow shock at Venus and Mars shows that the terminator bow shock varies with the angle between the local bow shock normal and the upstream magnetic field, θBN. The part of the shock on the quasi‐parallel side is closer to the planet than the part on the quasi‐perpendicular side, a result which had been suggested by an earlier computer simulation by Thomas and Winske [1990]. This bow shock asymmetry is observed to be larger at Mars than at Venus.
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