Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...
Europe's BepiColombo mission has returned its first ... Europe's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) is designed to map Mercury's terrain, generate height profiles, collect data on the planet's ...
In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...
ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the ...
the ESA-controlled Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the JAXA-led Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). Related: BepiColombo probe captures stunning Mercury images in closest flyby yet Rapid ...
But, in fact, it’s actually really difficult to reach the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission has almost reached ...