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🤔In space, no one can hear you. make an orbit-bending flyby of Mercury. So BepiColombo recorded its vibrations and turned them into sounds

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📽️Sit down, relax and enjoy #BepiColombo’s views as it moved gracefully around Mercury on 7-8 January 2025. 🎼🎶Playing in the background is The Hebrides overture by Felix Mendelssohn - can you guess why?

Lava and debris brighten Mercury's surface. The bright patch near the planet's upper edge in this image taken by M-CAM 2 is the Nathair Facula, the aftermath of the largest volcanic explosion on Mercury. This is a major target for several #BepiColombo instruments. Measuring the

Mercury's sunlit north viewed by M-CAM 1. This image shows that large regions of Mercury's heavily cratered surface are smoothed over by lava from volcanic eruptions. This smoothing is visible inside the 290 km-wide crater at the right of the image, called Mendelssohn. The vast

Mercury's shadowy north pole revealed by M-CAM 1. Sunlit rims cast permanent shadows on the floor of several craters seen here, making them some of the coldest places in the Solar System, despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun!. There is already evidence that these

Our top three images from the sixth Mercury flyby are here! 🌗. See what they reveal about the mysterious planet here 👉 and in 🧵👇

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On 8 January, at 06:59 CET, Bepi, Mio and MTM got as close as 295 km to Mercury’s surface. This sixth flyby is the last time the #BepiColombo trio greet the planet together 👉

Images and other scientific data from this morning's close approach to Mercury by #bepicolombo are safely on the ground! We'll be sharing images from the closest approach tomorrow.

Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.

BepiColombo is reaching its closest approach to Mercury now during its sixth encounter with the planet. It's 06:58:52 CET, and the spacecraft is 295km from the surface. #bepicolombo.

BepiColombo's sixth flyby of Mercury (this Wednesday) will be its last. But fear not! In 2026, the mission will enter into orbit around the little planet and stay for good 🤗. 🖼️Alex Luktus.

🛰️🌑We're gearing up for BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby, coming up this Wednesday! .ℹ️Closest approach is 295 km at 06:59 CET.We'll investigate Mercury's cold night side, north pole craters, and the vast northern plains.👇

RT @esascience: Last week, @BepiColombo became the first spacecraft to image planet Mercury in mid-infrared light 🔥.Using @MERTISonBepi, th….

RT @esascience: Yesterday @BepiColombo greeted Mercury from just 37628 km away, using @MERTISonBepi to take the first ever space-based pict….

A slight correction to the distance: the spacecraft reached 37628 km from Mercury's surface at closest approach.

Mercury in motion. One of the #BepiColombo selfie-cameras captured Mercury today as the spacecraft rushed by the planet at almost 3 km per second. 🛰️💨 .This time-lapse of unprocessed images was captured during 10:26-11:18 UTC today (11:26-12:18 CET), between 53700 and 48000 km