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Geometric sketch to show the positional relations and explain the letters in the equations. The directions of axes x and z are the same as the horizontal and vertical axes in Fig. 4, vM and vSW are the velocities of Mercury and the solar wind, and χ is the solar zenith angle at a point on Mercury’s dayside hemisphere.
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