Fig. 1From: Methods to derive the magnetopause from soft X-ray images by the SMILE missionThe SMILE orbit. A sketch of the orbital and viewing geometry of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission. The coordinates are in Earth radii. The x-axis points toward the Sun in the left. The black thick ellipse is a example of an orbit, black thin lines depict the magnetopause and bow shockBack to article page