7.11.2002) The interaction creates interesting phenomena on the sunward and shadow side of the Earth, in particular, magnetic reconnection, which occurs where the fields entangle, break and then recombine. The new findings reported by Marit Øieroset, Robert Lin and their colleagues at the Space Sciences Laboratory came from measurements by the Wind satellite as it passed through the reconnection region in the magnetotail, indicated by Phase 3. This diagram shows four phases of a possible NASA mission to study magnetic reconnection in the Earth‘s magnetosphere.