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BepiColombo ... approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury. Mission controllers will release images of the event on Jan. 9. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will soon get a ...

Read full article: NASA assembling SLS for Artemis II as uncertainty looms for moon rocket ... up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo.

Take a look at our favorite ... Friday, January 10, 2025: The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its sixth and final flyby of the closest planet to the sun, Mercury, capturing some incredible images ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

"BepiColombo ... Mercury's surface as BepiColombo crossed the "terminator line," the dividing line between the planet's night side and day side. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...

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BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launched October 20, 2018, it’s actually two ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made its ...