“…The high-latitude Na enhancements, which often appear at both hemispheres and are known as "two peaks" or "double peaks" (e.g., Mangano et al, 2015;Massetti et al, 2017;Orsini et al, 2018;Potter et al, 1999, are hypothesized to be related to the sputtering of neutral Na induced by the incidence of the solar wind plasma to the surface of Mercury through magnetospheric cusps (e.g., Killen et al, 2001;Killen et al, 2007;Leblanc & Johnson, 2003;Mangano et al, 2013Mangano et al, , 2015Massetti et al, 2007Massetti et al, , 2017. On the other hand, the dawn-dusk asymmetry is suggested to be related to the thermal and photon stimulated desorption processes that are more effective at dawn compared to dusk to knock off the neutrals from the surface (e.g., Mura et al, 2009;Potter et al, 2007), and the extended antisunward Na tail is due to the high solar radiation pressure (e.g., Baumgardner et al, 2008;Potter et al, 2002;Schmidt, 2013). Mangano et al (2015), using ground-based telescope observations, classified Na emission into two major recurrent patterns: a single peak at low latitudes close to the equator and the double peak at high latitudes.…”