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This spacecraft is about to feel the burn as it explores Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Here's why scientists are getting very excited
The BepiColombo mission is primed to orbit Mercury and uncover the secrets of the closest planet to our Sun.
BepiColombo will be the second mission to orbit Mercury and the first to study the planet with two spacecraft.
The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury, the hard-to-reach, scorching hot iron world at the Solar System’s ...
Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet and the one closest to the sun, hasn’t received as much love as its celestial neighbors. It’s the least explored of the inner solar system planets, which ...
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing images of two special impact craters as it uses the little planet's gravity to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ambitious mission to reveal the secrets of the least explored planet in the inner solar system is taking the initial big step ...
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Oct. 20, 2018: BepiColombo launches
BepiColombo, a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launched Oct. 20, 2018. The spacecraft is actually two satellites in one, the Mercury Planetary ...
ESA picked out a trio of top images from the BepiColombo mission's sixth flyby of the planet Mercury. Mercury is coming into better focus through the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft flew by the ...
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