BepiColombo Mission: A Comprehensive Study of Mercury’s Magnetic Field, Magnetosphere, and Surface Structure
BepiColumbo, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), recently approached the surface of Mercury, coming within just 236 kilometers of the planet. The mission, which consists of three satellites – the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MIO) – … Read more