Mars 2020 mission overview

KA Farley, KH Williford, KM Stack, R Bhartia… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
The Mars 2020 mission will seek the signs of ancient life on Mars and will identify, prepare,
document, and cache a set of samples for possible return to Earth by a follow-on mission …

[HTML][HTML] The BepiColombo planetary magnetometer MPO-MAG: what can we learn from the Hermean magnetic field?

D Heyner, HU Auster, KH Fornaçon, C Carr… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
The magnetometer instrument MPO-MAG on-board the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of
the BepiColombo mission en-route to Mercury is introduced, with its instrument design, its …

[HTML][HTML] Particles and photons as drivers for particle release from the surfaces of the Moon and Mercury

P Wurz, S Fatemi, A Galli, J Halekas, Y Harada… - Space science …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Moon and Mercury are airless bodies, thus they are directly exposed to the
ambient plasma (ions and electrons), to photons mostly from the Sun from infrared range all …

CMEs and SEPs during November–December 2020: A challenge for real‐time space weather forecasting

E Palmerio, CO Lee, ML Mays, JG Luhmann… - Space …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are a
central issue in space weather forecasting. In recent years, interest in space weather …

[HTML][HTML] BepiColombo-mission overview and science goals

J Benkhoff, G Murakami, W Baumjohann, S Besse… - Space science …, 2021 - Springer
BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency, ESA, and the
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, to perform a comprehensive exploration of …

[HTML][HTML] SERENA: particle instrument suite for determining the Sun-Mercury interaction from BepiColombo

S Orsini, SA Livi, H Lichtenegger, S Barabash… - Space science …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will provide simultaneous
measurements from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate …

[HTML][HTML] BepiColombo science investigations during cruise and flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury

V Mangano, M Dósa, M Fränz, A Milillo… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
The dual spacecraft mission BepiColombo is the first joint mission between the European
Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to explore …

Magnetosheath jet formation influenced by parameters in solar wind structures

F Koller, F Plaschke, M Temmer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetosheath jets are dynamic pressure enhancements observed in the terrestrial
magnetosheath. Their generation mechanisms are currently debated but the majority of jets …

[HTML][HTML] On the Mesoscale Structure of Coronal Mass Ejections at Mercury's Orbit: BepiColombo and Parker Solar Probe Observations

E Palmerio, F Carcaboso, LY Khoo… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
On 2022 February 15, an impressive filament eruption was observed off the solar eastern
limb from three remote-sensing viewpoints, namely, Earth, STEREO-A, and Solar Orbiter. In …

[HTML][HTML] Direct evidence of substorm-related impulsive injections of electrons at Mercury

S Aizawa, Y Harada, N André, Y Saito… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mercury's magnetosphere is known to involve fundamental processes releasing particles
and energy like at Earth due to the solar wind interaction. The resulting cycle is however …