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data and advance our knowledge of Mercury's plasma environment. The
BepiColombo MMO mission provides a unique and important opportunity
for the progress of magnetospheric studies by the first detailed comparison
of the planetary magnetosphere with the terrestrial one. The PWI real-
izes detailed diagnostics of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in the
Mercury magnetosphere in the view point of plasma/radio waves, which no
one has observed before.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by JAXA (Japan), CNES (France), SNSB
(Sweden), NSC (Norway), and HSO (Hungary).
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