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Etter sine sv\u00e6rt vellykkede oppdrag til Mars, Venus og Titan skal Europa n\u00e5 utforske Merkur, den planeten som ligger n\u00e6rmest Solen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BepiColombo, oppkalt etter en ber\u00f8mt italiensk matematiker som utarbeidet en beregning av den optimale flyvebanen til Merkur, vil bli en av de mest komplekse romfartsoppdragene som noensinne er gjennomf\u00f8rt. Tre moduler skal skytes opp mot den minste planeten i solsystemet \u2013 en europeisk banefart\u00f8y, et japansk banefart\u00f8y og en fremdriftsenhet som skal frakte de to romfart\u00f8yene til Merkur.<\/p>\n

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Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, 1920\u20131984<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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BepiColombo p\u00e5 vei mot Merkur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hvorfor reise til Merkur? Bare to romfart\u00f8yer har hittil bes\u00f8kt planeten, og store deler av overflaten er enn\u00e5 ikke unders\u00f8kt i detalj. Det er fortsatt mange sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l som BepiColombo skal gi svar p\u00e5. Hvorfor best\u00e5r for eksempel Merkur hovedsakelig av jern? Hvorfor har den et magnetfelt? Finnes det vannis i kalde, skyggefulle kratere n\u00e6r polene?<\/p>\n

ESAs Mercury Planetary Orbiter skal ha med seg 11 instrumenter. Fra en pol\u00e6r bane skal disse kartlegge planetens overflate, unders\u00f8ke dens indre, m\u00e5le sammensetningen av bergartene og studere den tynne atmosf\u00e6ren. Det andre romfart\u00f8yet, Japans Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, skal ha med seg fem instrumenter for \u00e5 studere planetens magnetfelt.<\/p>\n

BepiColombo blir den f\u00f8rste romferden til denne mystiske planeten som best\u00e5r av to romsonder. Oppskytingen forventes \u00e5 finne sted i juli 2016. Etter en lang og kronglete reise gjennom det indre solsystemet vil BepiColombo n\u00e5 Merkur i 2024.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following its wonderfully successful missions to Mars, Venus and Titan, Europe is going to explore Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Named after a famous Italian mathematician who made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"esa_banner_image":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2008\/01\/bepicolombo_s_propulsion3\/17889504-2-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_s_propulsion.jpg","esa_banner_description":"BepiColombo\u2019s propulsion","esa_banner_credit":"ESA - C. Carreau","esa_banner_licence":"ESA Standard Licence","esa_banner_detail_url":"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2008\/01\/BepiColombo_s_propulsion3","esa_external_url":"","esa_external_new_window":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[2],"panel":[],"language":[],"age":[],"duration":[],"resource_type":[],"audience":[],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn","category-our-universe","category-planets-and-moons","tag-background-article"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"panel","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/panel?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/duration?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kids.esa.int\/nb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}