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Mercurial Magnetosphere Shaped by Solar Winds

http://earthchangesmedia.com/mercurial-magnetosphere-shaped-by-solar-winds

Just before NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft began sending back stunning pictures of the Earth and the moon from its orbit around Mercury earlier this summer, two University of Alberta scientists were using NASA data to look back at Mercury.

Physics professor Robert Rankin and graduate student…

Just before NASA’s MESSENGER…