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Venus's induced magnetosphere during active solar wind conditions at BepiColombo's Venus 1 flyby

Miyoshi, Yoshizumi; Plaschke, Ferdinand; Futaana, Yoshifumi +23 more

Out of the two Venus flybys that BepiColombo uses as a gravity assist manoeuvre to finally arrive at Mercury, the first took place on 15 October 2020. After passing the bow shock, the spacecraft travelled along the induced magnetotail, crossing it mainly in the Y_VSO direction. In this paper, the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mag…