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Open AccessBepiColombo mission confirms stagnation region of Venus and reveals its large extent
The second Venus flyby of the BepiColombo mission offer a unique opportunity to make a complete tour of one of the few gas-dynamics dominated interaction regions between the supersonic solar wind and a Solar S...
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Open AccessDirect observations of energy transfer from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in magnetosheath of Earth
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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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Dielectric relaxation in amorphous and crystalline Sb2Te3 thin films
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Open AccessProspects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
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Publisher Correction: Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth’s turbulent magnetosheath
Change history: In this Letter, the y-axis values in Fig. 3f should go from 4 to −8 (rather than from 4 to −4), the y-axis values in Fig. 3h should appear next to the major tick marks (rather than the minor ticks...
