Mercury's surface and composition to be studied by BepiColombo

David Rothery; Lucia Marinangeli; Mahesh Anand; James Carpenter; Ulrich Christensen; Ian A. Crawford; Maria Cristina De Sanctis; Elena Mazzotta Epifani; Stéphane Erard; Alessandro Frigeri; George Fraser; Ernst Hauber; Jörn Helbert; Harald Hiesinger; Katherine Joy; Yves Langevin; Matteo Massironi; Anna Milillo; Igor Mitrofanov; Karri Muinonen; Jyri Näränen; Cristina Pauselli; Phil Potts; Johan Warell; Peter Wurz

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Mercury's surface and composition to be studied by BepiColombo

David Rothery, Lucia Marinangeli, Mahesh Anand, James Carpenter, Ulrich Christensen, Ian A. Crawford, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Stéphane Erard, Alessandro Frigeri, George Fraser, Ernst Hauber, Jörn Helbert, Harald Hiesinger, Katherine Joy, Yves Langevin, Matteo Massironi, Anna Milillo, Igor Mitrofanov, Karri MuinonenJyri Näränen, Cristina Pauselli, Phil Potts, Johan Warell, Peter Wurz

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We describe the contributions that we expect the BepiColombo mission to make towards increased knowledge and understanding of Mercury's surface and composition. BepiColombo will have a larger and more capable suite of instruments relevant for determination of the topographic, physical, chemical and mineralogical properties of the surface than carried by NASA's MESSENGER mission. We anticipate that the insights gained into the planet's geological history and its current space weathering environment will enable us to understand the relationships between surface composition and the composition of different types of crust. This will enable estimation of the composition of the mantle from which the crust was derived, and lead to better constraints on models for Mercury's origin and the nature of the material from which it formed. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-39
Number of pages	18
Journal	Planetary and Space Science
Volume	58
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2008.09.001
Publication status	Published - Jan 2010

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BepiColombo
Mercury
Planetary composition
Planetary surface

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Rothery, D., Marinangeli, L., Anand, M., Carpenter, J., Christensen, U., Crawford, I. A., Sanctis, M. C. D., Epifani, E. M., Erard, S., Frigeri, A., Fraser, G., Hauber, E., Helbert, J., Hiesinger, H., Joy, K., Langevin, Y., Massironi, M., Milillo, A., Mitrofanov, I., ... Wurz, P. (2010). Mercury's surface and composition to be studied by BepiColombo. Planetary and Space Science, 58(1-2), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2008.09.001

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