Later this year, the joint ESA/JAXA mission BepiColombo will enter orbit around Mercury.
After the separation from their transfer module, the two orbiters MPO (Mercury Planetary Orbiter, ESA) and Mio (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, JAXA) will pass through unexplored regions of the Hermean Environment.
Together with previous mission data of Mariner 10, MESSENGER, and BepiColombo swingbys along with insights from numerical modelling, we will be able to investigate, adapt, and improve our understanding of Mercury's origin, formation, composition, interior structure, and magnetospheric environment.
This session aims to bring together studies that present the state-of-the-art knowledge, and studies that explore the potential new data and approaches for future BepiColombo observations.
In particular, we invite studies that highlight the outstanding open questions the open questions about the Hermean environment, the progress made in addressing these questions, and the observations, models, and laboratory experiments needed to support further advances.