BepiColombo Goes for Mercury with Twin Probes
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Eight years after launch, ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo will separate its two science spacecraft—Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Mio—from the carrier this December for coordinated Mercury observations; by April 2027 the twin probes will begin detailed, simultaneous studies of Mercury’s surface, gravity, magnetosphere and exosphere, including searches for water ice in shadowed polar craters and mineral mapping without iron to shed light on how Mercury formed and the inner solar system.
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