Solar wind a major driver of atmospheric sodium at Mercury - Phys.org
5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 11 months ago
by Morgan Rehnberg
by Morgan Rehnberg
No object in the solar system experiences the sun's solar wind more powerfully than Mercury. The planet's magnetic field deflects the sun's stream of electrically charged particles at a distance of only 1,000 kilometers from Mercury's surface, a point called …
No object in the solar system experiences the sun's solar wind more powerfully than Mercury. The planet's magnetic field deflects the sun's stream of electrically charged particles at a distance of o… [+3010 chars]
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