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Dynamic electron radiation belt at Mercury controlled by solar wind driving: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02925-3 -> #Mercury has part-time radiation belts: https://news.engin.umich.edu/2026/07/mercury-has-part-time-radiation-belts/ - scientists thought Mercury’s magnetic field was disrupted by the sun too often to trap a radiation belt, but new analysis of MESSENGER data says that’s not always the case.