nightside
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nightside (plural nightsides)
(astronomy) The side of a planet that faces away from the sun around which it orbits.
Synonym: darkside
Antonym: dayside
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
Ions and electrons of the solar wind are deflected by the magnetosphere; solar wind pressure compresses the dayside of the magnetosphere, to about 10 Earth radii, and extends the nightside magnetosphere into a long tail.
It returned one swath of pictures and some radio occultation data which constituted the first detection of the nightside ionosphere on Mars.
Observations taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft detected this low energy plasma in the magnetosphere of the planet's nightside.
It is one of the main reasons why I haven’t bought any of Simon R Green’s Nightside series even though I enjoy his other works.
Like Taylor, I'll be returning to the Nightside.