It was seven years ago when a planetary mission called BepiColombo departed our world. A joint effort of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the ...

The two BepiColombo probes, consisting of ESA’s Mercury Planet Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter (MMO), launched together on a single spacecraft, and each will enter its ...

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM Plus ... the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). “These two spacecraft, with different orbits and perspectives, will allow ...

For BepiColombo, 2024 was a turbulent year ... of the intriguing landscapes that both the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and Mio, the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, will study in detail.

BepiColombo’s dual-orbiter design is unique. The Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) will focus on mapping the planet’s surface and studying its geological features, while the Mercury ...

BepiColombo consists of two scientific orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio). These orbiters are being transported to Mercury by ESA’s Mercury ...

Three images acquired by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on Jan. 8, as selected by the ESA. | Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its ...

Mercury is coming into better focus through the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft flew by the planet on Jan. 8, snapping a stunning set of closeups as it went. The images show the planet’s ...

These pictures of Mercury’s pockmarked surface are the last we’ll see before the BepiColombo mission begins orbiting the solar system’s innermost world in late 2026. Since launching in 2018 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its sixth and final flyby of the closest planet to the sun, ...

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 ...