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Messenger observations of mercury's bow shock and magnetopause
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gloeckler, G. Travnicek, P. Zurbuchen, T. H. Raines, M. Anderson, B. J. Benna, M. Schriver, D. Krimigis, S. M. Acuna, M. H. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Description | The MESSENGER spacecraft made the first of three flybys of Mercury on January 14.2008 (1). New observations of solar wind interaction with Mercury were made with MESSENGER'S Magnetometer (MAG) (2.3) and Energetic Particle and Plasma Spectrometer (EPPS) - composed of the Energetic Particle Spectrometer (EPS) and Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) (3,4). These MESSENGER observations show that Mercury's magnetosphere has a large-scale structure that is distinctly Earth-like, but it is immersed in a comet-like cloud of planetary ions [5]. Fig. 1 provides a schematic view of the coupled solar wind - magnetosphere - neutral atmosphere - solid planet system at Mercury. |
| File Size | 87788 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080031667 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3vt6ms6k |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2008-09-21 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Imaging Spectrometers Shock Waves Magnetometers Plasmas Physics Bow Waves Mercury Planet Messenger Spacecraft Plasma Interactions Solar Wind Slavin J. A. Neutral Atmospheres Energetic Particles Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
