Abstract
One of the major objectives of the Radio Science Experiment hosted
on-board the Mercury Planetary Orbiter of the ESA mission BepiColombo is
the retrieval of Mercury's rotational state, fundamental to gather
information on its interior. This consists in a system-level experiment
envisaging the collaboration among different payloads. The experiment
relies upon precise orbit reconstruction and observations of the same
landmarks on the surface at different epochs enabling to infer the
planet's obliquity and librations. Since the experiment is rather
complex, the implementation of a global simulator is under development
to identify optimal observation criteria. In particular, this abstract
will focus on two modules of the simulator, one producing a surface map
of possible image pairs and a tool for the generation of synthetic
images aimed at the selection of optimal pattern matching strategies.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2011 |