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Europes mission to Mercury, in cooperation with Japan, attained its first glimpse of Mercury as the spacecraft swayed by the solar systems innermost planet... 03.10.2021, Sputnik International

BepiColombo is on a mission to study all aspects of Mercury, from its core to surface processes and magnetic field.

A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system's innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.

BepiColumbo is a joint ESA-JAXA mission that is currently in space conducting operations. Recently, the ESA shared an image of the planet Mercury taken on

Elsa Montagnon, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the mission called the flyby mission "flawless."

BERLIN — A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system’s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.

A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system’s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025

Joint mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025

The BepiColombo mission made the first of six flybys, using the planet’s gravity to slow the spacecraft down.

After swooping past Mercury at altitudes of under 200 kilometers (125 miles), the spacecraft took a low resolution black-and-white photo with one of its monitoring cameras before zipping off again.