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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Review of Mercury's dynamic magnetosphere: Post-MESSENGER era and comparative magnetospheres

W Sun, RM Dewey, S Aizawa, J Huang… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
This review paper summarizes the research of Mercury's magnetosphere in the Post-
MESSENGER era and compares its dynamics to those in other planetary magnetospheres …

The BepiColombo mercury imaging X-ray spectrometer: science goals, instrument performance and operations

EJ Bunce, A Martindale, S Lindsay, K Muinonen… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer is a highly novel instrument that is
designed to map Mercury's elemental composition from orbit at two angular resolutions. By …