It isn't there yet, and won't be for a couple of years, with "there" being going into orbit around Mercury. To do that, it has to do a lot of flybys to slow down enough. But it just made a flyby and took a picture.
Here's the mission profile: "With its two probes, BepiColombo will be the second mission ever to orbit Mercury and the most complex one."
And here's a picture (there are more at the link above), with some labeled craters.
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