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Raines, J.M. et al. (2016). Plasma Sources in Planetary Magnetospheres: Mercury. In: Nagy, A., Blanc, M., Chappell, C., Krupp, N. (eds) Plasma Sources of Solar System Magnetospheres. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 52. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3544-4_4

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