2010年1月
The fluxgate magnetometer of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter
PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE
- 巻
- 58
- 号
- 1-2
- 開始ページ
- 287
- 終了ページ
- 299
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.pss.2008.06.018
- 出版者・発行元
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
The magnetometer (MAG) on the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to planet Mercury is a low-noise, tri-axial, dual-sensor, digital fluxgate instrument with its sensors mounted on a 2.8-m-long boom. The primary MPO/MAG science objectives are to determine the spatial and temporal structure of the magnetic field in the Hermean system, in particular the structure and origin of the intrinsic magnetic field of Mercury. MPO/MAG has a dynamic measurement range of +/- 2000 nT with a resolution of 2 pT during operation along the near-polar orbit of the MPO spacecraft around Mercury. MPO/MAG is designed to provide measurements with rates between 0.5 and 128 vectors/s. In cooperation with its sister magnetometer instrument, MMO/MGF on board the BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), MPO/MAG will be able to distinguish between temporal and spatial magnetic field variations in the magnetically closely coupled Hermean system. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.pss.2008.06.018
- ISSN : 0032-0633
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000275077600018