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Observing Mercury: from Galileo to the stereo camera on the BepiColombo mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2010

Gabriele Cremonese ,
Vania Da Deppo ,
Giampiero Naletto ,
Elena Martellato ,
Stefano Debei ,
Cesare Barbieri ,
Carlo Bettanini ,
Maria T. Capria ,
Matteo Massironi  and
Mirko Zaccariotto
Gabriele Cremonese
Affiliation:
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico, Vic. Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy email: gabriele.cremonese@oapd.inaf.it
Vania Da Deppo
Affiliation:
CNR-IFN UOS Luxor, Padova, Italy email: dadeppo@dei.unipd.it
Giampiero Naletto
Affiliation:
CNR-IFN UOS Luxor, Padova, Italy email: dadeppo@dei.unipd.it Dep. of Information Engeneering, University of Padova, email: naletto@dei.unipd.it CISAS, University of Padova, Via Venezia 15, 35131, Padova, Italy email: elena.martellato@oapd.inaf.it, stefano.debei@unipd.it
Elena Martellato
Affiliation:
CISAS, University of Padova, Via Venezia 15, 35131, Padova, Italy email: elena.martellato@oapd.inaf.it, stefano.debei@unipd.it
Stefano Debei
Affiliation:
CISAS, University of Padova, Via Venezia 15, 35131, Padova, Italy email: elena.martellato@oapd.inaf.it, stefano.debei@unipd.it
Cesare Barbieri
Affiliation:
CISAS, University of Padova, Via Venezia 15, 35131, Padova, Italy email: elena.martellato@oapd.inaf.it, stefano.debei@unipd.it Astronomy Department, University of Padova, Vic. Osservatorio 3, 35122, Padova, Italy email: cesare.barbieri@unipd.it
Carlo Bettanini
Affiliation:
CISAS, University of Padova, Via Venezia 15, 35131, Padova, Italy email: elena.martellato@oapd.inaf.it, stefano.debei@unipd.it
Maria T. Capria
Affiliation:
INAF – IASF, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100 00133 Roma, Italy email: mariateresa.capria@iasf-roma.inaf.it
Matteo Massironi
Affiliation:
Dep.Geosciences, University of Padova, Via Giotto, 35137 Padova, Italy email: matteo.massironi@unipd.it
Mirko Zaccariotto
Affiliation:
CISAS, University of Padova, Via Venezia 15, 35131, Padova, Italy email: elena.martellato@oapd.inaf.it, stefano.debei@unipd.it
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Abstract

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After having observed the planets from his house in Padova using his telescope, in January 1611 Galileo wrote to Giuliano de Medici that Venus is moving around the Sun as Mercury. Forty years ago, Giuseppe Colombo, professor of Celestial Mechanics in Padova, made a decisive step to clarify the rotational period of Mercury. Today, scientists and engineers of the Astronomical Observatory of Padova and of the University of Padova, reunited in the Center for Space Studies and Activities (CISAS) named after Giuseppe Colombo, are busy to realize a stereo camera (STC) that will be on board the European (ESA) and Japanese (JAXA) space mission BepiColombo, devoted to the observation and exploration of the innermost planet. This paper will describe the stereo camera, which is one of the channels of the SIMBIOSYS instrument, aiming to produce the global mapping of the surface with 3D images.

Keywords

space vehicles: instrumentsplanets: Mercury
Type
Poster Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S269: Galileo's Medicean Moons: their impact on 400 years of discovery , January 2010 , pp. 213 - 218
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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