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 …

BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency, ESA, and the
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, to perform a comprehensive exploration of …

Abstract The JUpiter Icy Moons Explorer is an ESA mission set for launch in 2023 April and
arrival in the Jovian system in 2031 July to investigate Jupiter and its icy satellites with a …

Bodily tides provide key information on the interior structure, evolution, and origin of the
planetary bodies. Our Solar system harbors a very diverse population of planetary bodies …

Recent estimates of Mercury's rotational state yield different obliquity values, resulting in
normalized polar moment of inertia values of either 0.333 or 0.346. In addition, recent …

Abstract ISA (Italian Spring Accelerometer) is a high sensitivity accelerometer flying, as
scientific payload, on-board one of the two spacecraft (the Mercury Planetary Orbiter) of …

Context. The upcoming JUICE and Europa Clipper missions targeting Jupiter's Galilean
satellites will provide radio science tracking measurements of both spacecraft. Such data are …

Elucidating the role of sulfur on the structure of silicate glasses and melts at elevated
pressures and temperatures is important for understanding transport properties, such as …

A new solution of Mercury's gravity field to degree and order 160, named HgM009, is
retrieved through a reprocessing of MESSENGER radio science measurements. By …

Mercury is the only planetary magnetosphere which does not possess a significantly
conducting ionosphere, yet magnetic field observations by the Mariner 10 and MErcury …