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Journal Article
Scientists Plan Mercury Probe and Earth Satellite Campaign
1996
Overview
Birmingham, U.K.—The European Space Agency 's (ESA's) science program is preparing to approve a billion-dollar mission to Mercury. Likely to fly late in the next decade, the mission would be humanity's first close-up look at Mercury since Mariner 10, some 20 years ago. One focus of the mission will be Mercury's unexpectedly strong and complex magnetic field. ESA scientists hope to explore the envelope of charged particles trapped by the field and learn what kind of metal core could be generating it. Birmingham, U.K.—Drawing on three spacecraft—U.S., Japanese, and Russian—that are now flying through Earth's magnetosphere, scientists are planning a 3- to 5-month campaign of coordinated observations. By making simultaneous measurements at different points in this vast region of trapped particles, they hope to unravel how it captures energy from the solar wind and funnels it toward Earth. The campaign is scheduled for this winter, when the orbits of all three satellites will place them in favorable positions.
