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 …

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 …

Deducing lunar regolith porosity from energetic neutral atom emission

PS Szabo, AR Poppe, H Biber, A Mutzke… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The porosity of the upper layers of regolith is key to the interaction of an airless planetary
body with precipitating radiation, but it remains difficult to characterize. One of the effects that …

Venus, the planet: introduction to the evolution of Earth's sister planet

JG O'Rourke, CF Wilson, ME Borrelli, PK Byrne… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Venus is the planet in the Solar System most similar to Earth in terms of size and (probably)
bulk composition. Until the mid-20th century, scientists thought that Venus was a verdant …

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 …

The bepiColombo environment radiation monitor, BERM

M Pinto, B Sanchez-Cano, R Moissl, J Benkhoff… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The BepiColombo Environment Radiation Monitor (BERM) on board the European
Space Agency's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), is designed to measure the radiation …

Multispacecraft Observations of a Widespread Solar Energetic Particle Event on 2022 February 15–16

LY Khoo, B Sánchez-Cano, CO Lee… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2022 February 15–16, multiple spacecraft measured one of the most intense
solar energetic particle (SEP) events observed so far in Solar Cycle 25. This study provides …

BepiColombo's cruise phase: Unique opportunity for synergistic observations

LZ Hadid, V Génot, S Aizawa, A Milillo… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The investigation of multi-spacecraft coordinated observations during the cruise phase of
BepiColombo (ESA/JAXA) are reported, with a particular emphasis on the recently launched …

Electron density revealing the boundaries of Mercury's magnetosphere via serendipitous measurements by SORBET during BepiColombo first and second Mercury …

L Griton, K Issautier, M Moncuquet, F Pantellini… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Aims. We aim to establish the boundaries of Mercury's magnetosphere through a
comparison of the drops and rises of the electron density revealed by PWI/SORBET, during …

New Observations Needed to Advance Our Understanding of Coronal Mass Ejections

E Palmerio, BJ Lynch, CO Lee, LK Jian… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large eruptions from the Sun that propagate through the
heliosphere after launch. Observational studies of these transient phenomena are usually …