Saturday, June 25, 2022

Bepi-Colombo does a Mercury flyby

 

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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