BepiColombo-Comprehensive exploration of Mercury: Mission overview and science goals
BepiColombo-Comprehensive exploration of Mercury: Mission overview and science goals
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pss.2009.09.020
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
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2.4
通讯作者：
Ziethe, Ruth
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作者：
Benkhoff, Johannes;van Casteren, Jan;Ziethe, Ruth
BepiColombo是一项跨学科的使命，旨在探索距离太阳最近的行星水星，由欧洲航天局和日本宇宙航空研究开发机构联合执行。两个航天器将在专用轨道上研究这颗行星及其环境。这两个航天器的科学有效载荷将提供了解行星本身及其周围环境的起源和演变所需的详细信息。科学目标的重点是通过调查水星的内部、表面、外逸层和磁层，全面确定水星的特征。此外，BepiColombo上的仪器将用于测试爱因斯坦的广义相对论。通过确定有效载荷补充量，使各项测量结果相互关联并相互补充，在优化使命的科学回报方面作出了重大努力。本文对BepiColombo航天器复合材料和使命剖面进行了深入的概述。它介绍了两个BepiColombo航天器上的科学仪器套件和使命的科学目标。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
BepiColombo is an interdisciplinary mission to explore Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, carried out jointly between the European Space Agency and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. From dedicated orbits two spacecraft will be studying the planet and its environment. The scientific payload of both spacecraft will provide the detailed information necessary to understand the origin and evolution of the planet itself and its surrounding environment. The scientific objectives focus on a global characterization of Mercury through the investigation of its interior, surface, exosphere and magneto-sphere. In addition, instrumentation onboard BepiColombo will be used to test Einstein's theory of general relativity. Major effort was put into optimizing the scientific return of the mission by defining a payload complement such that individual measurements can be interrelated and complement each other. This paper gives an in-depth overview of BepiColombo spacecraft composite and the mission profile. It describes the suite of scientific instruments on board of the two BepiColombo spacecraft and the science goals of the mission. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.