2.4.1 spase://CNES/Observatory/CDPP-AMDA/BepiColombo BepiColombo BepiColombo 2019-03-01T20:05:54Z The BepiColombo mission, an international project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), launched in October 2018, aims to explore the planet Mercury. BepiColombo consists of two spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio). The MPO will focus on geology, planetary composition, inner structure, and the exosphere, while Mio, equipped with plasma instruments, a sodium exosphere spectral imager, and a dust monitor, will study Mercury's space environment. spase://CNES/Person/CDPP-AMDA/J.Benkhoff ProjectScientist spase://CNES/Person/CDPP-AMDA/Go.Murakami ProjectScientist ESA Website https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo Mio Science Center https://miosc.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/about/project.php Benkhoff, J., Murakami, G., Baumjohann, W. et al. BepiColombo - Mission Overview and Science Goals. Space Sci Rev 217, 90 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00861-4 Reference paper Mercury 2018-10-20T02:13:28