In the magnetosphere, the plasma sheet is a sheet-like region of denser hot plasma and lower magnetic field located on the magnetotail and near the equatorial plane, between the magnetosphere's north and south lobes. In the near-Earth magnetotail, the central plasma sheet typically has ion number densities of about 0.1–0.5 cm−3, whereas the adjacent tail lobes contain much more tenuous plasma with densities of order 0.01–0.1 cm−3, i.e. roughly an order of magnitude lower.