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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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@LiamDonza @ukspacebulletin We do have both monitoring cameras that were active during this flyby (see the images here as well as science cameras that will investigate Mercury once we're back and enter orbit.
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This was indeed the last time the monitoring cameras got up-close views of Mercury as the spacecraft module they are attached to will separate from the mission's two orbiters before they enter orbit around Mercury in late 2026. I am confident everything will go according to plan :)
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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 👉
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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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RT @BepiColombo: Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere…
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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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@GrumpyG53751044 The Mercury Transfer Module, which is carrying the two BepiColombo orbiters to Mercury, will not enter orbit around the planet. It will continue in orbit around the Sun.
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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 👇
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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! 👇
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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 from the planet's surface. 📸
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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 👇
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RT @ESA_History: #OTD 20 October 2018, launch of #ESA/@JAXA_en @BepiColombo on #Ariane5 #VA245 from @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou on its 7 yea…
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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 👉
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RT @BepiColombo: Sit back, relax, and enjoy this beautiful timelapse of last week's Mercury flyby, set to some special music inspired by a…
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