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BepiColombo mission confirms stagnation region of Venus and reveals its large extent

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…