A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal
Investigating Mercury's Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission
Authors: Milillo A, Fujimoto M, Murakami G, Benkhoff J, Zender J, Aizawa S, Dosa M, Griton L, Heyner D, Ho G, Imber SM, Jia X, Karlsson T, Killen RM, Laurenza M, Lindsay ST, McKenna-Lawlor S, Mura A, Raines JM, Rothery DA, Andre N, Baumjohann W, Berezhnoy A, Bourdin PA, Bunce EJ, Califano F, Deca J, de la Fuente S, Dong C, Grava C, Fatemi S, Henri P, Ivanovski SL, Jackson BV, James M, Kallio E, Kasaba Y, Kilpua E, Kobayashi M, Langlais B, Leblanc F, Lhotka C, Mangano V, Martindale A, Massetti S, Masters A, Morooka M, Narita Y, Oliveira JS, Odstrcil D, Orsini S, Pelizzo MG, Plainaki C, Plaschke F, Sahraoui F, Seki K, Slavin JA, Vainio R, Wurz P, Barabash S, Carr CM, Delcourt D, Glassmeier KH, Grande M, Hirahara M, Huovelin J, Korablev O, Kojima H, Lichtenegger H, Livi S, Matsuoka A, Moissl R, Moncuquet M, Muinonen K, Quemerais E, Saito Y, Yagitani S, Yoshikawa I, Wahlund JE, Saito Y, Yagitani S, Yoshikawa I, Wahlund JE
Publisher: SPRINGER
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Space Science Reviews
Journal name in source: SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
Journal acronym: SPACE SCI REV
Article number: ARTN 93
Volume: 216
Issue: 5
Number of pages: 78
ISSN: 0038-6308
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00712-8
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00712-8
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/49594347
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will provide simultaneous measurements from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate magnetospheric and exospheric dynamics at Mercury as well as their interactions with the solar wind, radiation, and interplanetary dust. Many scientific instruments onboard the two spacecraft will be completely, or partially devoted to study the near-space environment of Mercury as well as the complex processes that govern it. Many issues remain unsolved even after the MESSENGER mission that ended in 2015. The specific orbits of the two spacecraft, MPO and Mio, and the comprehensive scientific payload allow a wider range of scientific questions to be addressed than those that could be achieved by the individual instruments acting alone, or by previous missions. These joint observations are of key importance because many phenomena in Mercury's environment are highly temporally and spatially variable. Examples of possible coordinated observations are described in this article, analysing the required geometrical conditions, pointing, resolutions and operation timing of different BepiColombo instruments sensors.
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