Solar wind interaction with the Reiner Gamma crustal magnetic anomaly: Connecting source magnetization to surface weathering
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a Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA b Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA d School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Republic of Korea Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA f Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
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