Geophysical Research Letters VOL.51 ISSUE 5 | 27 February 2024
Direct Detection of Ongoing Magnetic Reconnection at Mercury's High‐Latitude Magnetopause
Wang + Cheng + Gonzalez ...
An ongoing magnetic reconnection event was detected in the Mercury's high latitude magnetopause during a northward interplanetary magnetic field. The reconnection X‐line...
AGU23 | 13 December 2023
Estimating Mercury’s Seismicity over Time: An Initial Approach
Mariana Blanco-Rojas + Steven A. Hauck
Seismicity provides a fundamental window into the inner structure, composition, and operation of planetary bodies. Indeed, NASA’s InSight mission to Mars has demonstrated...
AGU23 | 13 December 2023
Maps of solar wind plasma precipitation onto Mercury's surface: a geographical perspective
Elizabeth A Jensen + Daniel Wolf Savin + Deborah Domingue ...
While planetary surface plasma flux from the solar wind occurs on time scales from less than a second to years, geologic time scales for space weathering extend significantly...
AGU23 | 13 December 2023
Is Mercury's Mantle Currently Convecting: Constraints from the Scaling Laws for the Onset of Convection
Chhavi Jain + Slava Solomatov
Whether the dominant mode of heat transport in the present-day mantle of Mercury is convection or conduction has long been debated, with various thermal evolution models for...
AGU23 | 13 December 2023
Recalibrating Mercury’s Crater Production Function
Jack William Conrad + Caleb Fassett
Crater production functions (CPF) are a widely used tool to estimate absolute ages of planetary surfaces from size-frequency distributions of impact craters. Two widely used...