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BepiColombo Detects Oxygen and Carbon Ions in Magnetosphere of Venus


In August 2021, the ESA/JAXA Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft performed its second flyby of Venus and provided a short-lived observation of its induced magnetosphere.

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