THEMIS Mercury observations

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Solar AO running at 150Hz on Mercury in daytime.



Mercury is scanned across the spectrograph slit using our OBJ2 scanning mirror. Scanning is performed along Mercury polar axis and acrosse its equator. Planet orientation is adjusted (if necessary), by setting an offset to the field rotator.


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