ESA - BepiColombo to swing by Mercury for the sixth time
Jan 6, 2025 · BepiColombo is more than six years into its eight-year journey to planet Mercury. In total, it is using nine planetary flybys to help steer itself into orbit around the small rocky planet: …
ESA - Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby
On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury for the sixth time, successfully completing the final ‘gravity assist manoeuvre’ needed to steer it into orbit around …
ESA - BepiColombo reveals Mercury in a new light
On 1 December 2024, BepiColombo flew past Mercury for the fifth time. During this flyby, BepiColombo became the first spacecraft ever to observe Mercury in mid-infrared light. The …
ESA Science & Technology - BepiColombo
BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. Launched on 20 October 2018, it is on a seven year journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System.
Home - BepiColombo - Cosmos
BepiColombo - Exploring Mercury. Europe's first mission to Mercury. Welcome to ESA's website for the BepiColombo scientific community and the BepiColombo Science Ground Segment. …
ESA Science & Technology - Fact Sheet - European Space Agency
Sep 5, 2019 · BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. Launched on 20 October 2018, it is on a seven-year journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar …
BepiColombo - Wikipedia
BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to the planet Mercury. [4] The mission comprises two satellites …
BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and …
Dec 19, 2024 · BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys)...
Check Out These Extraordinary New Images of Mercury
Jan 16, 2025 · This image was taken by M-Cam 1, when BepiColombo was about 900 miles above Mercury’s surface. The photo, ESA explains, shows that large regions of the planet’s …
Mercury stuns in incredibly detailed new images
Jan 9, 2025 · The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar …