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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/35854| Title: | Rationale for BepiColombo Studies of Mercury’s Surface and Composition | Authors: | Rothery, David Alan MASSIRONI, MATTEO Alemanno, Giulia Barraud, Oceane Besse, Sebastien BOTT, NICOLAS Brunetto, Rosario Bunce, Emma Byrne, Paul CAPACCIONI, FABRIZIO CAPRIA, MARIA TERESA CARLI, CRISTIAN Charlier, Bernard Cornet, Thomas CREMONESE, Gabriele D’Amore, Mario DE SANCTIS, MARIA CRISTINA Doressoundiram, Alain Ferranti, Luigi FILACCHIONE, GIANRICO GALLUZZI, VALENTINA GIACOMINI, LORENZA Grande, M. GUZZETTA, Laura Giovanna Helbert, Jorn Heyner, D. Hiesinger, Harald Hussmann, H. Hyodo, R. Kohout, T. Kozyrev, A. Litvak, M. LUCCHETTI, Alice Malakhov, A. Malliband, C. Mancinelli, Paolo Martikainen, J. Martindale, A. Maturilli, Alessandro MILILLO, Anna Mitrofanov, I. Mokrousov, M. Morlok, Andreas Muinonen, Karri Namur, Olivier Owens, A. Nittler, Larry R. Oliveira, Joana S. PALUMBO, Pasquale PAJOLA, Maurizio Pegg, David L. Penttilä, Antti POLITI, ROMOLO Quarati, F. RE, Cristina Sanin, Anton Schulz, Rita Stangarone, C. Stojic, A. Tretiyakov, V. Väisänen, T. Varatharajan, I. Weber, I. Wright, Jack Wurz, P. ZAMBON, Francesca |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Journal: | SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS | Number: | 216 | Issue: | 4 | First Page: | 66 | Abstract: | BepiColombo has a larger and in many ways more capable suite of instruments relevant for determination of the topographic, physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of Mercury's surface than the suite carried by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. Moreover, BepiColombo's data rate is substantially higher. This equips it to confirm, elaborate upon, and go beyond many of MESSENGER's remarkable achievements. Furthermore, the geometry of BepiColombo's orbital science campaign, beginning in 2026, will enable it to make uniformly resolved observations of both northern and southern hemispheres. This will offer more detailed and complete imaging and topographic mapping, element mapping with better sensitivity and improved spatial resolution, and totally new mineralogical mapping. | Acknowledgments: | The work leading to this paper has been funded by many agencies in many countries over several years. Rothery, Massironi and several others are supported by EU Horizon 2020 grant 776276 ‘Planmap’, and the lead author was previously supported by various grants from the Science and Technology Funding Council and the UK Space Agency. Several co-authors were supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) under ASI-INAF agreement 2017-47-H.0. Research at the University of Helsinki was supported, in part, by the Academy of Finland grant No. 1325805. Heyner was supported by the German Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie and the German Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt under contract 50 QW 1501. The MGNS instrument team in Russia is funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, grant AAAA-A18-118012290370-6. MESSENGER data used in figures in this paper are available thanks to NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. We thank Nancy L. Chabot and Clark R. Chapman for careful reviews that helped us to correct some previously unnoticed misconceptions. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/35854 | URL: | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85085861368&partnerID=MN8TOARS https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00694-7 |
ISSN: | 0038-6308 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11214-020-00694-7 | Bibcode ADS: | 2020SSRv..216...66R | Fulltext: | open |
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