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Messenger observations of extreme loading and unloading of mercury's magnetic tail

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Author	Slavin, James A. McNutt, Ralph L. Gold, Robert E. Baker, Daniel N. Gloeckler, George Krimigis, Stamatios M. Zurbuchen, Thomas H. Boardsen, Scott A. Schriver, David Benna, Mehdi Raines, Jim M. Solomon, Sean C. Travnicek, Pavel M. Ho, George C. Nittler, Larry R. Anderson, Brian J. Korth, Haje Sarantos Sr., Menelaos Starr, Richard D.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	During MESSENGER's third flyby of Mercury, a series of 2-3 minute long enhancements of the magnetic field in the planet's magnetotail were observed. Magnetospheric substorms at Earth are powered by similar tail loading, but the amplitude is approximately 10 times less and the durations are 1 hr. These observations of extreme loading imply that the relative intensity of substorms at Mercury must be much larger than at Earth. The correspondence between the duration of tail enhancements and the calculated approximately 2 min Dungey cycle, which describes plasma circulation through Mercury's magnetosphere, suggests that such circulation determines substorm timescale. A key aspect of tail unloading during terrestrial substorms is the acceleration of energetic charged particles. Such signatures are puzzlingly absent from the MESSENGER flyby measurements.
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Page Count	11
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Alternate Webpage(s)	http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20100026678
Archival Resource Key	ark:/13960/t5bc8zf5x
Language	English
Publisher Date	2010-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration Mercury Planet Magnetopause Unloading Flyby Missions Messenger Spacecraft Magnetic Fields Charged 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

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