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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ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter, travelling with JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (@JAXA_MMO) & @ESA_MTM as part of the #BepiColombo mission
- 😮 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?
00:00 - 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 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor… and in 🧵👇
- 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 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
- 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.
- 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
- 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 👇esa.int/Science_Explor…
- 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 👇 esa.int/Science_Explor…
- 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! 👇 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… - 😌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
00:00 - Mercury, we meet again! 🤗This Sunday, @BepiColombo will fly past Mercury for the fifth time. Here's an overview of what you can expect 👇 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
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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 🔗esa.int/Science_Explor…
