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BepiColombo mission confirms stagnation region of Venus and reveals its large extent

Ronan Modolo
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Christopher J. Owen

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The second Venus flyby of the BepiColombo mission offer a unique opportunity to make a complete tour of one of the few gas-dynamics dominated interaction regions between the supersonic solar wind and a Solar System object. The spacecraft pass through the full Venusian magnetosheath following the plasma streamlines, and cross the subsolar stagnation region during very stable solar wind conditions as observed upstream by the neighboring Solar Orbiter mission. These rare multipoint synergistic observations and stable conditions experimentally confirm what was previously predicted for the barely-explored stagnation region close to solar minimum. Here, we show that this region has a large extend, up to an altitude of 1900 km, and the estimated low energy transfer near the subsolar point confirm that the atmosphere of Venus, despite being non-magnetized and less conductive due to lower ultraviolet flux at solar minimum, is capable of withstanding the solar wind under low dynamic pressure.
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hal-03950153 , version 1 (26-01-2023)

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Moa Persson, Sae Aizawa, Nicolas André, Stanislav V. Barabash, Y. Saito, et al.. BepiColombo mission confirms stagnation region of Venus and reveals its large extent. Nature Communications, 2022, 13, pp.7743. ⟨10.1038/s41467-022-35061-3⟩. ⟨hal-03950153⟩
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