Prospects for the Measurement of Mercury's Solid Body Tides with the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter

BEPICOLOMBO LASER ALTIMETER. R. N. Thor , R. Kallenbach, U. R. Christensen, A. Stark, G. Steinbrügge, A. Di Ruscio, P. Cappuccio, L. Iess, H. Hussmann, and J. Oberst , 1 Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, e-mail: thor@mps.mpg.de, 2 Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany, 3 DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Rutherfordstraße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany, 4 Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, 5 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Roma, RM, Italy