The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 23:44:12 ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from around 787 km, ...

The spacecraft is set to make a flyby of Mercury in September, and operators are still unsure of the full impact of this glitch. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The image was taken at 09:49:22 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 2, when the spacecraft was within about 920 km from the surface of Mercury. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission ...

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image made available by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows planet Mercury taken by the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo ...

Mercury is a planet that's always been a mystery. Recently, two spacecraft have flown and came so close to the planet. A European-Japanese joint science mission to study Mercury, BepoColombo, is back ...

A spacecraft has sent back beautiful new close-up images of the planet Mercury from just 125 miles/200 kilometers away. BepiColumbo—a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan ...

It's the first of six Mercury flybys before BepiColombo enters orbit in 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two spacecraft ...