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BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano Lina Z. Hadid Sae Aizawa Go Murakami Yumi Bamba +78 lainnya

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Abstract BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, was launched in October 2018 and is scheduled to arrive at Mercury in November 2026 after an 8-year cruise. Like other planetary missions, its scientific objectives focus mostly on the nominal, orbiting phase of the mission. However, due to the long duration of the cruise phase covering distances between 1.2 and 0.3 AU, the BepiColombo mission has been able to outstandingly contribute to characterise the solar wind and transient events encountered by the spacecraft, as well as planetary environments during the flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury, and contribute to the characterisation of the space radiation environment in the inner Solar System and its evolution with solar activity. In this paper, we provide an overview of the cruise observations of BepiColombo, highlighting the most relevant science cases, with the aim of demonstrating the importance of planetary missions to perform cruise observations, to contribute to a broader understanding of Space Weather in the Solar System, and in turn, increase the scientific return of the mission. Graphical Abstract

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Geography. Anthropology. Recreation Geodesy Geology

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano

Lina Z. Hadid

Sae Aizawa

Go Murakami

Yumi Bamba

Shota Chiba

Takuya Hara

Daniel Heyner

George Ho

Kazumasa Iwai

Emilia Kilpua

Gaku Kinoshita

Benoit Lavraud

Yoshizumi Miyoshi

Marco Pinto

Daniel Schmid

Daikou Shiota

Rami Vainio

Nicolas Andre

Alessandro Aronica

Sami Asmar

Hans-Ulrich Auster

Stas Barabash

Alain Barthe

Wolfgang Baumjohann

Johannes Benkhoff

Mark Bentley

Emma Bunce

Paolo Cappuccio

Dominique Delcourt

Ivan di Stefano

Irene Doria

Nina Dresing

Andrei Fedorov

David Fischer

Bjorn Fiethe

Markus Fränz

Jan Gieseler

Franz Giner

Gabriel Giono

Yuki Harada

Hauke Hussmann

Luciano Iess

Takeshi Imamura

Harald Jeszenszky

Geraint Jones

Bruno Katra

Adrian Kazakov

Alexander Kozyrev

Gunter Laky

Carlo Lefevre

Herbert Lichtenegger

Simon Lindsay

Marco Lucente

Carmelo Magnafico

Werner Magnes

Adrian Martindale

Ayako Matsuoka

Anna Milillo

Igor Mitrofanov

Gaku Nishiyama

Philipp Oleynik

Stefano Orsini

Meegyeong Paik

Christian Palmroos

Christina Plainaki

Emanuel Penou

Moa Persson

Francesco Quarati

Eric Quémerais

Ingo Richter

Rozenn Robidel

Mathias Rojo

Yoshifumi Saito

Francesco Santoli

Alexander Stark

Mirko Stumpo

Rong Tian

Ali Varsani

Christopher Verdeil

Hayley Williamson

Olivier Witasse

Shoichiro Yokota

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Sánchez-Cano, B., Hadid, L.Z., Aizawa, S., Murakami, G., Bamba, Y., Chiba, S. et al. (2025). BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02256-z

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Tahun Terbit: 2025
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.1186/s40623-025-02256-z
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