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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",sans-serif">The solar wind heavily influences the environments around inner solar system bodies. Interactions vary throughout the inner solar system: from the intrinsic magnetospheres of Mercury and
Earth to the induced and hybrid magnetospheres of Venus and Mars; from the weathering of lunar and small rocky body surfaces to the local effects of crustal fields. Understanding the wide range of solar wind interactions and driving of these environments has
long been an active area of research, with recent and exciting opportunities in observations, modeling, and computing capabilities enabling new insight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",sans-serif">As such, we would like to encourage paper submissions to the Frontiers Research Topic on “Exploring Solar Wind Interactions with Inner Solar System Bodies: New Frontiers, Insights, and
Future Directions”. More information on the special issue can be found at: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/69740__;!!D-JDmu3Lc2wo0Jiybg!dbIajD7OgXOUdNcL0i8fAxdlwCtyrD8rfBaJKfKc81yXd_Xm8IpJwrC1AQbYfrijPAYyZsWD3s5eGx0fFODY8wcK$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/69740__;!!D-JDmu3Lc2wo0Jiybg!dbIajD7OgXOUdNcL0i8fAxdlwCtyrD8rfBaJKfKc81yXd_Xm8IpJwrC1AQbYfrijPAYyZsWD3s5eGx0fFODY8wcK$">
https://www.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/69740</a>. The closing deadline for submissions is 6 September 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",sans-serif">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos Narrow",sans-serif">-Robert C. Allen, Ryan Dewey, Sarah Vines, Shahab Fatemi, and Sarah Henderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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