The space environment of Mercury at the times of the second and third MESSENGER flybys

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2066-2074

  Baker, Daniel N ^a   Odstrcil, Dusan ^b,c   Anderson, Brian J ^d   Arge, C Nick ^e   Benna, Mehdi ^c   Gloeckler, George ^f   Korth, Haje ^d   Mayer, Leslie R ^g   Raines, Jim M ^f   Schriver, David ^h   Slavin, James A ^c   Solomon, Sean C ⁱ   Trávníček, Pavel M ^h,j   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

Interplanetary magnetic field; Magnetospheres; Mercury; MESSENGER; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DRIVING FORCES; EARTH-BASED INSTRUMENTS; EMPIRICAL MODELING; HELIOSPHERES; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MESSENGER; MESSENGER SPACECRAFT; PHOTOSPHERIC MAGNETIC FIELD; PHYSICS-BASED; RADIAL FLOW SPEED; RADIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR RADII; SOLAR WIND VELOCITY; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND PROPERTIES;

COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC POLARITY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOLAR WIND;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 82455212141     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2011.01.018     Document Type: Article

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