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The claim is tied to the fourth Mercury flyby on 4 September 2024, 165 km altitude, using BepiColombo’s SIXS particle observations. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 25997

Source: Planetary shielding and surface precipitation of solar energetic particles during BepiColombo’s close Mercury flyby · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:7230b4ebfe1eaeb3b92e73b08eb02f6ab949e08e2d6bb2bb8f90ffae8d5a9667

During its fourth flyby of Mercury on 4 September 2024, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission passed within just 165 km of the planet’s surface. ... utilizing observations from the Solar Intensity X-Ray and Particle Spectrometer (SIXS) onboard BepiColombo ...