Mercury's magnetospheric magnetic field after the first two MESSENGER flybys

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-39

  Alexeev, Igor I ^a   Belenkaya, Elena S ^a   Slavin, James A ^b   Korth, Haje ^c   Anderson, Brian J ^c   Baker, Daniel N ^d   Boardsen, Scott A ^b   Johnson, Catherine L ^e   Purucker, Michael E ^b   Sarantos, Menelaos ^b   Solomon, Sean C ^f  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic fields; Magnetospheres; Mercury

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955768426     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.024     Document Type: Article

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