BepiColombo spacecraft assists Mercury’s second gravity – captures amazing close-ups
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on June 23, 2022, because the spacecraft flew throughout the planet in its second of six gravity-assisted maneuvers at Mercury. This picture was captured at 09:51:07 UTC by Surveillance Digicam 3 within the Mercury Switch Module, when the spacecraft was 1,406 km (874 miles) from … Read more