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The secondary report corroborates that Mercury’s body and weak magnetic field produced particle dropouts consistent with a shielding or shadowing effect during the BepiColombo encounter. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: BepiColombo Catches Solar Storm Particles Raining on Mercury While Its Magnetosphere Shields the Planet · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:31f426e0ca0fb2145ee2b5bb44b6779220246f7d76df7e25d9bfbdb5a6140bcc

The fluxes of solar energetic particles dropped sharply, revealing that the planet’s magnetosphere, despite its modest strength, was acting as a genuine shield, carving out a protective cavity in the otherwise hostile radiation environment. ... the solid body of Mercury and its weak magnetic field cast a kind of shadow, blocking some particles and carving dropouts into the measured fluxes.