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Open AccessBepiColombo - Mission Overview and Science Goals
BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency, ESA, and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, to perform a comprehensive exploration of Mercury. Launched on
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Correction to: SERENA: Particle Instrument Suite for Determining the Sun-Mercury Interaction from BepiColombo
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00809-8
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Open AccessSERENA: Particle Instrument Suite for Determining the Sun-Mercury Interaction from BepiColombo
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will provide simultaneous measurements from two spacecraft, offering an unprecedented opportunity to investigate magnetospheric and exospheric particle dynamics at M...
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Open AccessInvestigating Mercury’s Environment with the Two-Spacecraft BepiColombo Mission
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 th...
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Coordinated Study on Solar Wind Turbulence During the Venus-Express, ACE and Ulysses Alignment of August 2007
At the end of August 2007, Venus, Earth and Ulysses were aligned within a few degrees. This unusual event gives the opportunity to attempt a coordinated study on the radial evolution of solar wind turbulence a...
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Mercury’s Surface Composition and Character as Measured by Ground-Based Observations
Mercury’s surface is thought to be covered with highly space-weathered silicate material. The regolith is composed of material accumulated during the time of planetary formation, and subsequently from comets,...
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Magnetosphere–Exosphere–Surface Coupling at Mercury
Mercury’s environment is a complex system, resulting from the interaction between the solar wind, magnetosphere, exosphere and surface. A comprehensive description of its characteristics requires a detailed s...
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IMF Direction Derived from Cycloid-Like Ion Distributions Observed by Mars Express
Although the Mars Express (MEX) does not carry a magnetometer, it is in principle possible to derive the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) orientation from the three dimensional velocity distribution of pick...
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Auroral Plasma Acceleration Above Martian Magnetic Anomalies
Aurora is caused by the precipitation of energetic particles into a planetary atmosphere, the light intensity being roughly proportional to the precipitating particle energy flux. From auroral research in the ...
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The Analyzer of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms (ASPERA-3) for the Mars Express Mission
The general scientific objective of the ASPERA-3 experiment is to study the solar wind – atmosphere interaction and to characterize the plasma and neutral gas environment with within the space near Mars throug...
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Surface-Exosphere-Magnetosphere System Of Mercury
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 also provided some interesting re...
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Source and loss processes in the inner magnetosphere
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The experiment OPERA for the mission Interball
An experiment for measuring the electric field along 2 axes from quasi-static DC to kHz called OPERA is being produced at IFSI for the USSR mission Interball. An experiment description is given here. The exper...
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Quiet-time solar-wind ionic composition
The ISEE-B EGD solar-wind plasma experiment often observes heavy ions in the solar wind. Selecting two periods of quiet solar wind with no particles observed backstreaming from the Earth’s bow-shock, we show t...
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Observations of nonlinear turbulence in the upstream solar wind
Plasma, electric-field and magnetic-field data from several experiments on board the spacecraft ISEE 1 and 2 have been analysed in the interaction region upstream of the Earth's bow shock. Upstream waves which...
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Observations of backstreaming protons in the solar wind near the Earth's bow shock
Protons backstreaming in the solar wind, upstream of the Earth's bow shock, are frequently revealed by the plasma, experiment on board satellite ISEE 2. Preliminary results of a statistical analysis (based on ...
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Preliminary results from the solar wind experiment on the ISEE-2 satellite
The EGD plasma experiment, launched on board of the ISEE-2 spacecraft, is briefly described. Preliminary results concerning three bow shock crossings occurred in November 1977 are discussed. Our attention is f...