A deep dynamo generating Mercury's magnetic field

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7122, 2006, Pages 1056-1058

  Christensen, Ulrich R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CORIOLIS FORCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MERCURY (PLANET); PLANETARY ROTATION; THERMAL CONVECTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FLOW RATE; LIQUID; MAGNETIC FIELD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; ROTATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33845881424     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05342     Document Type: Article

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