During the June 2023 flyby, BepiColombo traversed Mercury’s magnetosphere in a rapid 30-minute window, moving from dusk to dawn and flying just 235 kilometers (146 miles) above the planet’s ...

"These flybys are fast; we crossed Mercury's magnetosphere in about 30 minutes, moving from dusk to dawn and at the closest approach of just 146 miles (235 km) above the planet's surface," Lina ...

Mercury, as seen by the European-Japanese BepiColombo probe during its fourth flyby of the planet on Sept. 4, 2024. (Image credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM; Image processing and video production by ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications discusses the processes that produce auroras on the planet Mercury that were examined from the first flyby of the joint European Space Agency (ESA) ...

During its first Mercury flyby, Bepicolombo swooped just 200 kilometres above the planet's ... While Mercury’s magnetosphere is much smaller than Earth’s and has a different structure and ...

The aim of the BepiColombo mission is to provide information on the composition, geophysics, atmosphere, magnetosphere and history of Mercury. The closest approach so far for the mission – about 165 ...

An artist’s interpretation of BepiColombo’s flyby of Mercury. Illustration: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Thibaut Roger/Europlanet. On October 1 ...

The two BepiColombo probes, consisting of ESA’s Mercury Planet Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter (MMO), launched together on a single spacecraft, and each will enter its ...

In particular, Japan is in charge of the Mercury magnetosphere probe Mio, ... Whistler-mode waves in Mercury’s magnetosphere observed by BepiColombo/Mio. Nature Astronomy, 2023; ...

"These flybys are fast; we crossed Mercury's magnetosphere in about 30 minutes, moving from dusk to dawn and at the closest approach of just 146 miles (235 km) above the planet's surface," Lina ...

During a June 2023 flyby of Mercury, BepiColombo encountered several characteristics of the planet's magnetic field. This field forms a protective magnetic bubble around Mercury and guards the ...