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ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter, travelling with JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (@JAXA_MMO) & @ESA_MTM as part of the #BepiColombo mission
On my way to Mercury!
Joined February 2017
Flying past Mercury was a moving experience 😉
🤔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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😮 The views I get when passing by are just jaw-dropping! Can't wait to be back at Mercury, this time to stay!
📽️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?
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Thank you, ground support team 🫡 Now let's get ready for the last trip before final arrival at destination. Until then, here are my latest Mercury postcards, everyone! 👇
Our top three images from the sixth Mercury flyby are here! 🌗 See what they reveal about the mysterious planet here 👉 https://t.co/osfrjGs2t5 and in 🧵👇
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I have greeted Mercury in passing one last time before we meet again in 2026. 🤗
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 👉 https://t.co/jheNFY2pQE
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Ground support, you have mail!
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.
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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.
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Hello, Mercury! 👋 Here we go again, one last swingby before I'm here to stay.
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
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I'm getting ready for my last flyby of Mercury! One more trip and I'll be home for good 🥹
🛰️🌑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 👇 https://t.co/ec7qs13G4E
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I saw Mercury in infrared light for the first time last week - the planet's sunlit side looks simply... radiant🥹
Last week, @BepiColombo became the first spacecraft to image planet Mercury in mid-infrared light 🔥 Using @MERTISonBepi, the mission will uncover what Mercury's surface is made of 👇 https://t.co/XdbDSaZzXV
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Mercury flyby 5 was a success, can't wait to show you everything we saw!
Yesterday @BepiColombo greeted Mercury from just 37628 km away, using @MERTISonBepi to take the first ever space-based pictures of the planet in mid-infrared wavelengths. We'll reveal what Bepi saw in the coming week! 👇 https://t.co/2xiKtxcvkW
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😌Here's a sneak preview of my views of Mercury, taken as I flew towards the planet yesterday This was the fifth time I flew close to Mercury - only one more flyby to go before I stay near the planet for good!
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
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Mercury, we meet again! 🤗
This Sunday, @BepiColombo will fly past Mercury for the fifth time. Here's an overview of what you can expect 👇 https://t.co/Q5c5mdFpkB
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#OTD 20 October 2018, launch of #ESA/@JAXA_en @BepiColombo on #Ariane5 #VA245 from @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou on its 7 year journey to #Mercury
@esascience @ESA_Bepi @CNES @Arianespace 🔗 https://t.co/Hqvl5cnaGQ
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WOW, it only took 30 minutes for Mio to collect enough data during our third #MercuryFlyby to map out the dynamic features of Mercury’s magnetic environment. Great job @JAXA_MMO! 👏🤩 Can’t wait for our dual observations once in orbit! Full story 👉 https://t.co/w8qtR8KnTQ
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My office view 🌑😍
🌑 Fly over Mercury with #BepiColombo 👇 and discover the newly named Stoddart crater, after artist Margaret Olrog Stoddart, and the larger Raphael crater. https://t.co/bT3qYkJH1e
#EPSC2024
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Sit back, relax, and enjoy this beautiful timelapse of last week's Mercury flyby, set to some special music inspired by a crater that appears in some images 😉
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Excited to share these stunning new views of #Mercury from our fourth Mercury flyby 🤩
Its closest pass yet and its first-ever views of Mercury's south pole – last night was quite a night for #BepiColombo! Enjoy this taste of our fourth Mercury flyby. Details & images 👇 https://t.co/iKzONy9CGZ
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We did it! Thanks Mercury for the helping hand! Still sending selfies down – keep an eye out for a full selection coming your way later today 🤩
Our #BepiColombo @esaoperations team confirm all went well with our Mercury flyby last night. Now we wait and see what images & data our instrument teams collected! Stay tuned for a selfie-cam update later today. Here's a sneak preview 🤫
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Wow, what a view 😍 Can't wait to share some selfies with you all tomorrow!
Right now, #BepiColombo is just 165 km from Mercury's surface. This is the closest the spacecraft has ever been, and the closest it will ever get. Having just passed the planet's north pole, the spacecraft will soon capture its first-ever images of the south pole. Stay tuned!
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Being captured by Mercury's gravity is easier said than done 😓
#BepiColombo is on track for its fourth Mercury flyby tonight, but why is the spacecraft still coming and going? Find out below 👇 https://t.co/1YxE3voYBH
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