BepiColombo's Second Mercury Flyby - by Astroguyz
The spacecraft approached Mercury from the planet’s night side, then began imaging the cratered surface about five minutes after closest approach as the Sun rose over the illuminated terrain below. The images were taken courtesy of the three monitoring cameras aboard the spacecraft.This is the second Mercury flyby for the spacecraft of six overall that BepiColombo must perform before arriving in orbit around Mercury in December 2025.
BepiColombo is now the third spacecraft to reach Mercury, after the Mariner 10 flyby in 1973 and NASA’sin 2011 to 2015. The spacecraft will also become the second mission to enter orbit around Mercury, after Messenger. BepiColombo will build upon data and science collected by Messenger, which completed its mission by crashing into Mercury on April 30, 2015, becoming the first human artifact to touch the innermost world.
. “The images highlight many of the science goals that we can address when BepiColombo gets into orbit.”, as the most challenging planet in the current dawn solar system lineup.It’s amazing that we live in an era where we can now discuss topics like the ‘planetary geology’ of Mercury. Thanks to spacecraft like BepiColombo, these enigmatic worlds that have remained mere points of light for centuries have now become dynamic and exciting worlds in their own right.
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