Evidence for space weather at Mercury

By R. Killen, A. Potter, P. Reiff, M. Sarantos, B. Jackson, P. Hick, B. Giles. 2001

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MESSENGER Mission Overview (2007, background): “…variations in exospheric characteristics observed as functions of local time, solar distance, and level of solar activity (Potter et al. 1999; Killen et al. 2001; Hunten and Sprague 2002) as well as by correlations between atmospheric Na and K enhancements and surface features (Sprague et…”
Chemical heterogeneity on Mercury's surface revealed by the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer (2012, background): “However, it remains uncertain how the exosphere distributions relate to the interplay between source processes and variations in surface composition [e.g., Killen et al., 2001, 2004; Mura et al., 2009].”
Space Weather: Terrestrial Perspective (2007, background): “Mercury has a small intrinsic field but no atmosphere, there the solar wind interacts directly with the surface and exosphere (Killen et al., 2001).”
Processes that Promote and Deplete the Exosphere of Mercury (2007, background): “During this motion, protons do not exactly follow magnetic field lines: particles are drifted northward by the E × B drift and westward by the grad-B drift (Mura et al. 2005).”