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Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34988-x Bibcode: 2022NatCo..13.7390O

Kallio, E.; Barabash, S.; Holmström, M. +89 more

Mercury's southern inner magnetosphere is an unexplored region as it was not observed by earlier space missions. In October 2021, BepiColombo mission has passed through this region during its first Mercury flyby. Here, we describe the observations of SERENA ion sensors nearby and inside Mercury's magnetosphere. An intermittent high-energy signal, …

2022 Nature Communications
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BepiColombo mission confirms stagnation region of Venus and reveals its large extent
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35061-3 Bibcode: 2022NatCo..13.7743P

André, N.; Fedorov, A.; Barabash, S. +42 more

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 System object. The spacecraft pass through the full Venusian magnetosheath following the plasma streamlines, and cross the subsolar stagnatio…

2022 Nature Communications
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