Substorms on Mercury?
Abstract
The Mariner 10 encounter of Mercury provided data showing a strong interaction between the solar wind and the planet similar to a scaled down version of that producing the earth's magnetosphere. Some of the features observed in Mercury's night side magnetosphere suggest time-dependent processes occurring there. Interpreted as temporal events, these features bear striking resemblances to substorm phenomena in the earth's magnetosphere.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- November 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1029/JA080i031p04359
- Bibcode:
- 1975JGR....80.4359S
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Storms;
- Mercury (Planet);
- Planetary Magnetic Fields;
- Planetary Magnetospheres;
- Solar Wind;
- Earth Magnetosphere;
- Mariner Venus-Mercury 1973;
- Mariner 10 Space Probe;
- Planetary Atmospheres;
- Trajectory Analysis;
- Particles and Fields-Magnetosphere: Magnetosheath