Two Spacecraft, Four Flythroughs: Magnetometer Measurements by BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter in the Induced Magnetotail of Venus
- 1Austrian Academy of Sciences, IWF Graz, Graz, Austria (martin.volwerk@oeaw.ac.at)
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
In 2020 and 2021 both BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter used Venus for a gravity assist in order to reach Mercury and to finally get into the correct orbit around the Sun, respectively. These flybys were the first since Mariner 10 to sample a long stretch, more than 30 Venus radii of the induced magnetotail of Venus. This brought the opportunity to study the structure and dynamics of the tail during different solar wind conditions. On this poster we will discuss the differences and also the similarities (even though the four flybys took different trajectories through the induced magnetotail) using the magnetometers on both spacecraft. Field line draping, magnetic reconnection, and plasma waves will all pass by on stage.
Robert Allen, Ulli Auster, Stuart Bale, Wolfgang Baumjohann, Dragos Constantinescu, Andrew Dimmock, David Fischer, Daniel Heyner, Tim Horbury, Werner Magnes, Ayako Matsuoka, Johannes Mieth, Rumi Nakamura, Helen O’Brien, Ferdinand Plaschke, Kirstin Pump, Ingo Richter, Beatriz Sánchez-Cano, Daniel Schmid, Cyril Simon Wedlund, Lloyd Woodham
How to cite: Volwerk, M. and the The VenusMagTeam: Two Spacecraft, Four Flythroughs: Magnetometer Measurements by BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter in the Induced Magnetotail of Venus, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-822, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-822, 2022.
