Open AccessLarge-Scale Electric Currents May Flow Through Mercury's Crust
Author(s) -
Jessica Orwig
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2015eo026419
Subject(s) - crust , mercury (programming language) , environmental science , geophysics , scale (ratio) , geology , flow (mathematics) , physics , mechanics , computer science , programming language , quantum mechanics
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft discovered electric currents in Mercury's magnetosphere directed toward and away from the planet. Do the currents reach the planet? If so, where do they go?