MESSENGER observations of magnetic reconnection inmercury's magnetosphere

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5927, 2009, Pages 606-610

  Slavin, James A ^a   Acuna, Mario H ^a   Anderson, Brian J ^b   Baker, Daniel N ^c   Benna, Mehdi ^a,d   Boardsen, Scott A ^a,d   Gloeckler, George ^e,f   Gold, Robert E ^b   Ho, George C ^b   Korth, Haje ^b   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^b,g   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^b   Raines, Jim M ^e   Sarantos, Menelaos ^a   Schriver, David ^h   Solomon, Sean C ⁱ   Trávníček, Pavel ^h,j   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e University of Maryland   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (PLANET); SOLAR WIND;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; WIND POWER;

EID: 66249115638     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172011     Document Type: Article

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28. We deeply mourn the loss of our colleague and MESSENGER Co-Investigator Mario Acuña during the preparation of this manuscript; his many contributions to the MESSENGER mission and the space science community live on. We also thank all who contributed to the success of the first and second MESSENGER flybys of Mercury. Data visualization and graphics support by J. Feggans, C. Liebrecht, and M. Marosy are gratefully acknowledged. The MESSENGER project is supported by the NASA Discovery Program under contracts NAS5-97271 to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and NASW-00002 to the Carnegie Institution of Washington.