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The secondary report corroborates incomplete magnetic shielding and energetic-particle precipitation onto Mercury’s surface during the solar-particle event. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: BepiColombo Catches Solar Storm Particles Raining on Mercury While Its Magnetosphere Shields the Planet · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:188332b6b3e92eeab25ac42266ad8f30299dedf00fb0ebdacc8f6de003fe411e

The shielding, however, is not complete. The measurements showed that while most of the incoming particle population was deflected around the planet, a significant fraction of the energetic particles found their way to low altitudes and precipitated onto the surface.