Mio team members

Teams and Members

Figure 1: Mio

The plasma particle instruments (MPPE : MEA, MIA, MSA, HEP-e, HEP-i, ENA), magnetometer (MGF), and plasma wave and electric field instruments (PWI) mounted on Mio, will work together to understand the various physical phenomena occurring in the Mercury's magnetosphere. Mercury Sodium Atmosphere Spectral Imager (MSASI) will study emissions from Mercury’s thin atmosphere to shed light on the mysteries of the atmosphere's production mechanisms. The Mercury dust monitor (MDM) will observe the dust of the Solar System's innermost edge about which hardly anything is known. The radiation monitor (SPM) provides data about the solar energetic particle event.

Mio Satellite Observation Team

  • Project Scientist: Go Murakami (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan)

Magnetic Field Investigation (MGF)

  • PI: Wolfgang Baumjohann (Austrian Space Science, Austria)
  • Co-PI: Ayako Matsuoka (Kyoto University, Japan)

Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI)

  • PI: Yasumasa Kasaba (Tohoku University, Japan)
  • Co-PI (EWO-E): Hirotsugu Kojima (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Co-PI (EWO-B): Satoshi Yagitani (Kanazawa University, Japan)
  • Co-PI (SORBET): Karine Issautrier (LESIA Observatoire de Paris, France)
  • Co-PI (MEFISTO): Jan-Erik Wahlund (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden)

Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE)

  • PI: Yoshifumi Saito (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan)
  • Co-PI: Dominique Delcourt (LPP, France)
  • Co-PI: Stas Barabash (IRF, Sweden)
  • Co-PI: Masafumi Hirahara (Nagoya University, Japan)

Mercury Dust Monitor (MDM)

  • PI: Masanori Kobayashi (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

Mercury Sodium Atmosphere Spectral Imager (MSASI)

  • PI: Ichiro Yoshikawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Co-PI: Oleg Korablev (Space Research Institute (IKI), Russia)

Solar Particle Monitor (SPM)

  • Go Murakami (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan)
  • Haruka Ueno (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan)
  • Takeshi Takashima (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan)
  • Shoya Matsuda (Kanazawa University, Japan)