Plasma precipitation on Mercury’s nightside and its implications for magnetospheric convection and exosphere generation.
Jim M Raines1, James A Slavin2, Patrick Tracy2, Daniel J Gershman3,4, Thomas Zurbuchen2, Ryan M. Dewey5 and Menelaos Sarantos6,7, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (6)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
