The dayside magnetospheric boundary layer at Mercury

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2037-2050

  Anderson, Brian J ^a   Slavin, James A ^b   Korth, Haje ^a   Boardsen, Scott A ^b,c   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^d   Raines, Jim M ^d   Gloeckler, George ^d   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^a   Solomon, Sean C ^e  

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

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Magnetic field; Magnetosphere; Mercury; MESSENGER; Plasma

Indexed keywords

IN-FIELD; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD DIRECTION; MAGNETIC FIELD MAGNITUDES; MAGNETIC FIELD VECTORS; MAGNETIC PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; MAXIMUM VARIANCE; MERCURY SURFACE; MESSENGER; PLANETARY SURFACES; PLASMA PRESSURES; PROTON FLUX; SPACE ENVIRONMENT;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAVY IONS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); PLASMAS; PROTONS;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 80053523402     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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