The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 23:44:12 ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESA’s spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through six gravity assists of the planet before ...

BepiColumbo is a joint ESA-JAXA mission that is currently in space conducting operations. Recently, the ESA shared an image of the planet Mercury taken on October 1, 2021. The image was snapped as the ...

The European and Japanese mission BepiColombo has made its first flyby of Mercury, capturing images of the planet it will eventually be exploring in more depth. In order to get close to the planet, ...

The image was taken at 09:49:22 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 2, when the spacecraft was within about 920 km from the surface of Mercury. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission ...

While making its way to Mercury, the BepiColombo, a European-Japanese spacecraft, made a close approach to Venus on Aug. 10, according to the European Space Agency. The spacecraft snapped 89 images of ...

Mercury is a planet that's always been a mystery. Recently, two spacecraft have flown and came so close to the planet. A European-Japanese joint science mission to study Mercury, BepoColombo, is back ...

A spacecraft has sent back beautiful new close-up images of the planet Mercury from just 125 miles/200 kilometers away. BepiColumbo—a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan ...