MESSENGER observations of Mercury's dayside magnetosphere under extreme solar wind conditions

CLJ and RMW acknowledge support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and CLJ acknowledges support from MESSENGER Participating Scientist grant NNX11AB84G. The MESSENGER project is supported by the NASA Discovery Program under contracts NASW- 00002 to the Carnegie Institution of Washington and NAS5-97271 to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

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