Observations of Mercury's northern cusp region with MESSENGER's Magnetometer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Winslow, Reka M ^a   Johnson, Catherine L ^a,b   Anderson, Brian J ^c   Korth, Haje ^c   Slavin, James A ^d   Purucker, Michael E ^e   Solomon, Sean C ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETERS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); SOLAR WIND;

CUSP REGION; INTERNAL FIELD; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; LOCAL TIME; MAGNETIC CUSPS; MAGNETIC PRESSURE; NORTH-SOUTH ASYMMETRY; PARTICLE FLUXES; PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA PRESSURES; SOLAR WIND PLASMAS; SPACE WEATHERING;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

ASYMMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOMETER; MERCURY (PLANET); OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARTICLE MOTION; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLASMA; SOLAR WIND; SPACECRAFT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84861312423     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051472     Document Type: Article

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