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Embedded in a large mass density and strong interplanetary magnetic field solar wind environment and equipped with a magnetic field of minor strength, planet Mercury exhibits a small magnetosphere vulnerable to severe solar wind buffeting. This causes large variations in the size of the magnetosphere and its associated currents. External fields are of far more importance than in the terrestrial case and of a size comparable to any internal, dynamo-generated field. Induction effects in the planetary interior, dominated by its huge core, are thought to play a much more prominent role in the Hermean magnetosphere compared to any of its companions. Furthermore, the external fields may cause planetary dynamo amplification much as discussed for the Galilean moons Io and Ganymede, but with the ambient field generated by the dynamo and its magnetic field-solar wind interaction.
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Glassmeier, KH., Grosser, J., Auster, U., Constantinescu, D., Narita, Y., Stellmach, S. (2008). Electromagnetic Induction Effects and Dynamo Action in the Hermean System. In: Balogh, A., Ksanfomality, L., von Steiger, R. (eds) Mercury. Space Sciences Series of ISSI, vol 26. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77539-5_11
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