Mercury's magnetosphere after MESSENGER's first flyby

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5885, 2008, Pages 85-89

  Slavin, James A ^a   Acuña, Mario H ^a   Anderson, Brian J ^b   Baker, Daniel N ^c   Benna, Mehdi ^a   Gloeckler, George ^d,e   Gold, Robert E ^b   Ho, George C ^b   Killen, Rosemary M ^e   Korth, Haje ^b   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^b,f   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^b   Nittler, Larry R ^g   Raines, Jim M ^d   Schriver, David ^h   Solomon, Sean C ^g   Starr, Richard D ⁱ   Trávníèek, Pavel ^j   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

^f BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^g GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^j ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (PLANET); OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 46849110565     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159040     Document Type: Article

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