{"id":1114,"date":"2018-10-22T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2024-02-24T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:08:25","slug":"the-international-mercury-exploration-bepicolombo-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/the-international-mercury-exploration-bepicolombo-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Mercury Exploration &#8220;BepiColombo&#8221; Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Image Credit: JAXA)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BepiColombo was launched on October 20th(JST)!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BepiColombo is JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and ESA (European Space Agency) cooperative Mercury exploration mission. Simultaneous Launch of MMO (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter) and MPO (Mercury Planetary Orbiter)\u00a0was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ichiro Yoshikawa and Kazuo Yoshioka (Graduate School of Frontier Sciences) developed Mercury Sodium Atmospheric Spectral Imager \u201cMSASI\u201d installed in MMO. They also developed detectors for the Mercury outer space ultraviolet spectroscopic observation machine \u201cPHEBUS\u201d mounted on the MPO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/news\/2018\/#news13233\">here<\/a>(JAXA site) for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Image Credit: JAXA) &nbsp; BepiColombo was launched on October 20th(JST)! &nbsp; BepiColombo is JAXA (Japan A &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-utops"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(Image Credit: JAXA) BepiColombo was launched on\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"utops\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/the-international-mercury-exploration-bepicolombo-mission\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ja_JP\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UTOPS - 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