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Description: The science instruments of BepiColombo’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter. There are 11 instrument suites in total, several of which have multiple subsystems (as indicated in the graphic). BELA: BepiColombo laser altimeter ISA: Italian spring accelerometer MPO-MAG: Mercury Planetary Orbiter Magnetometer MERTIS: MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer MGNS: Mercury Gamma-ray and Neutron Spectrometer MIXS: Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (-C: collimator; -T: telescope) MORE: Mercury Orbiter Radio-science Experiment PHEBUS: Probing of Hermean Exosphere by Ultraviolet Spectroscopy SERENA: Search for Exospheric Refilling and Emitted Natural Abundance (ELENA: Emitted Low-Energy Neutral Atoms; MIPA: Miniature Ion Precipitation Analyser; PICAM: Planetary Ion Camera; STROFIO: Start from a Rotating Field Mass Spectrometer) SIMBIO-SYS: Spectrometer and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory System SIXS: Solar Intensity X-ray and particle Spectrometer More information about MPO's instruments.
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