A transient enhancement of Mercury’s exosphere at extremely high altitudes inferred from pickup ions

Mercury has a global dayside exosphere, with measured densities of 10(−2) cm(−3) at ~1500 km. Here we report on the inferred enhancement of neutral densities (<10(2) cm(−3)) at high altitudes (~5300 km) by the MESSENGER spacecraft. Such high-altitude densities cannot be accounted for by the typic...

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Autores principales: Jasinski, Jamie M., Regoli, Leonardo H., Cassidy, Timothy A., Dewey, Ryan M., Raines, Jim M., Slavin, James A., Coates, Andrew J., Gershman, Daniel J., Nordheim, Tom A., Murphy, Neil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18220-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18220-2

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