Mapping of the cusp plasma precipitation on the surface of Mercury

Icarus

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-237

  Massetti, Stefano ^a   Orsini, S ^a   Milillo, A ^a   Mura, A ^a   De Angelis, E ^a   Lammer, H ^b   Wurz, P ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetic field; Magnetosphere; Mercury; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348017056     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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