On Friday (October 1) at 23:34 ET, the BepiColombo spacecraft made its first six passes after Mercury. The spacecraft used the planet’s gravity to slow its flight and took amazing photos. BepiColombo reached an altitude of less than 200 kilometers from the surface of Mercury. The European Space Agency said the captured image shows the distinctive features of the planet’s northern hemisphere. The video shows the Lermontov crater, 166 kilometers wide. The Japanese-European probe mission began in 2018. Its goal is to better study the geology and structure of the planet. It takes five more passes before the BepiColombo is slowed enough to launch the Mercury Planetary Orbiter ESA and Mercury Magnetopheric Orbiter JAXA. These two objects are aimed at studying the surface processes of the smallest planet in the solar system, as well as its magnetic field. Task name…
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no mockeryIt is undoubtedly nice to have the opportunity to go where we have not been before. But it is generally boring.
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It is undoubtedly nice to have the opportunity to go where we have not been before. But it is generally boring.
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It is undoubtedly nice to have the opportunity to go where we have not been before. But it is generally boring.
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