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

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  • Jamie M. Jasinski

    (California Institute of Technology)

  • Leonardo H. Regoli

    (University of Michigan
    The John Hopkins University)

  • Timothy A. Cassidy

    (University of Colorado Boulder)

  • Ryan M. Dewey

    (University of Michigan)

  • Jim M. Raines

    (University of Michigan)

  • James A. Slavin

    (University of Michigan)

  • Andrew J. Coates

    (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
    Center for Planetary Sciences, UCL/Birkbeck)

  • Daniel J. Gershman

    (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

  • Tom A. Nordheim

    (California Institute of Technology)

  • Neil Murphy

    (California Institute of Technology)

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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 (

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  • Jamie M. Jasinski & Leonardo H. Regoli & Timothy A. Cassidy & Ryan M. Dewey & Jim M. Raines & James A. Slavin & Andrew J. Coates & Daniel J. Gershman & Tom A. Nordheim & Neil Murphy, 2020. "A transient enhancement of Mercury’s exosphere at extremely high altitudes inferred from pickup ions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-18220-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18220-2
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