BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby

[Graeme1858]

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts its trajectory for entering Mercury orbit in 2025.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration ... cury_flyby

Graeme

[Michael131313]

That's pretty interesting. It got really close. Thanks.

[Ylem]

That's pretty amazing, definitely the most interesting planet in our solar system imo.

[Lady Fraktor]

Thank you for the link Graeme

[Unitron48]

Interesting mission! I was unaware of this one. Thanks for sharing!

Dave

First since MESSENGER, 2011-2015: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mess ... index.html

[Chich]

Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of this mission either. I'll pass it along to some other groups I'm in.

[Juno16]

Unaware also!

Thanks Graeme for the interesting read!