During its June 2023 flyby, BepiColombo explored Mercury’s magnetic field, offering insights into the planet’s magnetosphere, which, despite being weaker than Earth’s, interacts intensely with the solar wind due to Mercury’s proximity to the sun. The mission aims to study these dynamics further when it arrives in 2026. Using flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury, BepiColombo will deploy two orbiters for comprehensive measurements. Lina Hadid utilized the Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment during the flyby to analyze Mercury’s magnetic landscape, capturing data in just 30 minutes.

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