Mercury/Magnetic Substorms

Magnetic substorms, consisting of a build up of magnetic energy Mercury's Magnetic tail. First seen during Messenger's third flyby. The intensity are ten times that of the ones found at Earth. The duration was about two to three minutes, about fifty times as rapid as those on Earth.

New Information on Magnetic Substorms

 * See Mercury/Magnetic Substorms, Mercury/Magnetotail, Earth/Substorms


 * http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jul/10-170_Messenger_New_Info.html
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/20mercury.html?_r=2&ref=science
 * http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/mercury-flyby-teaser/
 * http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mercury-has-magnetic-storms-volcano-evidence-100715.html