BepiColombo
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BepiColombo
@BepiColombo
Europe's mission to Mercury, in cooperation with Japan. Arriving 2026 at the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System.
- Our mission's Science Working Team had a highly productive meeting in Sapporo, Japan, last week, gearing up for the joint arrival of the @JAXA_MMO Mio and @esascience @ESA_Bepi MPO spacecraft at Mercury later this year! #bepicolombo 🛰️🛰️
- It's one year until we reach Mercury to stay! Follow this link to catch up with what we've been up to during our trip to this fascinating little planet! 🙂#bepicolombo7️⃣years in space 9️⃣flights past 3️⃣planets 1️⃣ year to go until @BepiColombo arrives at Mercury! 🫡 🤓Rest assured, we’ve made the most of the mission’s winding journey to its destination 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…
- 🤔In space, no one can hear you... make an orbit-bending flyby of Mercury. So BepiColombo recorded its vibrations and turned them into sounds
00:00 - 📽️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?
00:00 - Replying to @BepiColomboLava 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
- Replying to @BepiColomboMercury'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
- Replying to @BepiColomboMercury'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 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor… and in 🧵👇
- Stay tuned!I will unveil the new images of Mercury tomorrow morning as part of my Annual Press Briefing. Follow along live from 10:00 CET on esawebtv.esa.int
- 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 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
