BepiColombo's 1st Views of Mercury
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has captured its first views of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby last night.
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"Flawless" flyby for BepiColombo turns up its first photos of Mercury
Nearly three years after lifting off from French Guiana, the BepiColombo space probe has now set its sights on Mercury for the first time, completing a "flawless" flyby over the weekend and collecting its first images.
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A European-Japanese spacecraft snapped the clearest photo of Mercury in 6 years as it flew past the planet
A photo from BepiColombo's first Mercury flyby on October 1, 2021. ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO BepiColombo, a European-Japanese spacecraft,
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Hello Mercury! Europe-Japan Mission Captures Its First Picture of the Planet
Elsa Montagnon, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the mission called the flyby mission "flawless."
Source: interestingengineering.com