SERENA: A suite of four instruments (ELENA, STROFIO, PICAM and MIPA) on board BepiColombo-MPO for particle detection in the Hermean environment

0366579 - ÚFA 2012 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Orsini, S. - Livi, S. - Torkar, K. - Trávníček, Pavel M. - SERENA, team. … Total 127 authors
SERENA: A suite of four instruments (ELENA, STROFIO, PICAM and MIPA) on board BepiColombo-MPO for particle detection in the Hermean environment.
Planetary and Space Science. Roč. 58, 1-2 (2010), s. 166-181. ISSN 0032-0633. E-ISSN 1873-5088
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z30420517
Keywords : Mercury’s exosphere * Magnetospheric plasma * Sun–Mercury interaction * Particle detectors
Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics
Impact factor: 2.344, year: 2010
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003206330800278X

Search for Exospheric Refilling and Emitted Natural Abundances' (SERENA) is an instrument package that will fly on board the BepiColombo/Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). It will investigate Mercury's complex particle environment that is composed of thermal and directional neutral atoms (exosphere) caused by surface release and charge-exchange processes, and of ionized particles caused by photo-ionization of neutrals as well by charge exchange and surface release processes. In order to investigate the structure and dynamics of the environment, an in-situ analysis of the key neutral and charged components is necessary, and for this purpose the SERENA instrument shall include four units: two neutral particle analyzers (Emitted Low Energy Neutral Atoms (ELENA) sensor and Start from a Rotating Field mass spectrometer (STROFIO)) and two ion spectrometers (Miniature Ion Precipitation Analyzer (M IPA) and Planetary Ion Camera (PICAM)).
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