2021
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-021-00822-x
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The BepiColombo Planetary Magnetometer MPO-MAG: What Can We Learn from the Hermean Magnetic Field?

Abstract: 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 calibration and scientific targets. The instrument is comprised of two tri-axial fluxgate magnetometers mounted on a 2.9 m boom and are 0.8 m apart. They monitor the magnetic field with up to 128 Hz in a $\pm 2048$ ± 2048  nT range. The MPO will be injected into an initial $480 \times 15… Show more

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“…These small and slow CMEs are transients often seen during low solar activity phases of the solar cycle and are often called stealth CMEs because, as in this case, no clear source is identified. BepiColombo has already encountered several transient structures of this type, such as that presented in Heyner et al (2021). Although stealth CMEs typically are pushed by the solar wind, they have the capacity to interact with the planet's conductive surface and ionosphere plasma: this is especially the case for unmagnetized planets, as demonstrated in this study at Venus and also with similar events at Mars by Sánchez-Cano et al (2017) and Kajdič et al (2021).…”
Section: Bepicolombo Solar Wind Conditionssupporting
confidence: 71%
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“…These small and slow CMEs are transients often seen during low solar activity phases of the solar cycle and are often called stealth CMEs because, as in this case, no clear source is identified. BepiColombo has already encountered several transient structures of this type, such as that presented in Heyner et al (2021). Although stealth CMEs typically are pushed by the solar wind, they have the capacity to interact with the planet's conductive surface and ionosphere plasma: this is especially the case for unmagnetized planets, as demonstrated in this study at Venus and also with similar events at Mars by Sánchez-Cano et al (2017) and Kajdič et al (2021).…”
Section: Bepicolombo Solar Wind Conditionssupporting
confidence: 71%
“…Nevertheless, other effects more difficult to discern may also be playing a role, such as shadowing from one's own spacecraft due to attitude changes. Interestingly, Rosetta also saw a similar reduction in the GCR flux of 8 % in the vicinity of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko which could not be attributed to any known mechanisms (Honig et al, 2019).…”
Section: Bepicolombo Solar Wind Conditionsmentioning
confidence: 86%
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“…Perhaps a future BepiColombo mission will be able to answer these questions. It is assumed that the influence of the solar wind will be studied in more detail since one spacecraft of the BipiColombo mission will be in the solar wind out of the magnetosheath, while the other in the magnetosphere of Mercury [15].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%