Mercury: Magnetosphere

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2324. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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Among the major discoveries made by the MARINER 10 mission to the inner planets was the existence of an intrinsic magnetic field at Mercury with a dipole moment of ˜300 nT RM3. This magnetic field is sufficient to stand off the solar wind at an altitude of about 1 RM (i.e. ˜2439 km). Hence, Mercury possesses a `magnetosphere' from which the solar wind plasma is largely excluded and within which t...

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