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Astrophysics and Astroparticles
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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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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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 st...
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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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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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ASPI experiment: measurements of fields and waves on board the INTERBALL-1 spacecraft
The plasma-wave experiment ASPI (analysis of spectra of plasma waves and instabilities) on board the INTERBALL spacecraft is a combined wave diagnostics experiment. It performs measurements of the DC and AC ma...
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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...
