[HTML][HTML] Investigating Mercury's environment with the two-spacecraft BepiColombo mission

A Milillo, M Fujimoto, G Murakami, J Benkhoff… - Space science …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will provide simultaneous measurements
from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate magnetospheric …

[HTML][HTML] Geodesy, geophysics and fundamental physics investigations of the BepiColombo mission

A Genova, H Hussmann, T Van Hoolst, D Heyner… - Space science …, 2021 - Springer
In preparation for the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, thematic working groups
had been established for coordinating the activities within the BepiColombo Science …

The BepiColombo mission: an outstanding tool for investigating the Hermean environment

A Milillo, M Fujimoto, E Kallio, S Kameda… - Planetary and Space …, 2010 - Elsevier
Mercury possesses a weak, internal, global magnetic field that supports a small
magnetosphere populated by charged particles originating from the solar wind, the planet's …

[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 …

BepiColombo—Comprehensive exploration of Mercury: Mission overview and science goals

J Benkhoff, J Van Casteren, H Hayakawa… - Planetary and Space …, 2010 - Elsevier
BepiColombo is an interdisciplinary mission to explore Mercury, the planet closest to the
sun, carried out jointly between the European Space Agency and the Japanese Aerospace …

Surface-exosphere-magnetosphere system of Mercury

A Milillo, P Wurz, S Orsini, D Delcourt, E Kallio… - Space Science …, 2005 - Springer
Mercury is a poorly known planet, since the only space-based information comes from the
three fly-bys performed in 1974 by the Mariner 10 spacecraft. Ground-based observations …

[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 …

An international program for Mercury exploration: synergy of MESSENGER and BepiColombo

RL McNutt Jr, SC Solomon, R Grard, M Novara… - Advances in Space …, 2004 - Elsevier
Mariner 10 has been the only spacecraft to visit the innermost planet Mercury. Its three
flybys, more than 25 years ago, yielded the first view of this little-understood world. With …

Scientific objectives and instrumentation of Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE) onboard MMO

Y Saito, JA Sauvaud, M Hirahara, S Barabash… - Planetary and Space …, 2010 - Elsevier
Mercury is one of the least explored planets in our solar system. Until the recent flyby of
Mercury by MESSENGER, no spacecraft had visited Mercury since Mariner 10 made three …

PHEBUS: A double ultraviolet spectrometer to observe Mercury's exosphere

E Chassefière, JL Maria, JP Goutail… - Planetary and Space …, 2010 - Elsevier
Probing of Hermean exosphere by ultraviolet spectroscopy (PHEBUS) is a double
spectrometer for the Extreme Ultraviolet range (55–155nm) and the Far Ultraviolet range …