• Influence of Mercury's Exosphere on the Structure of the Magnetosphere 

      Exner, WilliORCIDiD; Simon, SvenORCIDiD; Heyner, DanielORCIDiD; Motschmann, UweORCIDiD (Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2020)
      Mercury is embedded in a tenuous and highly anisotropic sodium exosphere, generated mainly by plasma-surface interactions. The absolute values of the sodium ion density are still under debate. Observations by MESSENGER's ...