The variability of Mercury's exosphere by particle and radiation induced surface release processes

Icarus

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238-247

  Lammer, Helmut ^a   Wurz, P ^b   Patel, M R ^c   Killen, R ^d   Kolb, C ^a   Massetti, S ^e   Orsini, S ^e   Milillo, A ^e  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mercury; Regolith; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347386313     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.08.012     Document Type: Article

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