Flying past Mercury was a moving experience 😉
BepiColombo@BepiColombo
🤔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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@ESA_Bepi
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! เข้าร่วม Şubat 2017
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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!
BepiColombo@BepiColombo
📽️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 esa.int/Science_Explor…) as well as science cameras that will investigate Mercury once we're back and enter orbit.
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@ESA_Bepi @ukspacebulletin Do you have cameras? Will you take images of the surface?
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I'm getting ready for my last flyby of Mercury! One more trip and I'll be home for good 🥹
BepiColombo@BepiColombo
🛰️🌑We're gearing up for BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby, coming up this Wednesday! ℹ️Closest approach is 295 km at 06:59 CET We'll investigate Mercury's cold night side, north pole craters, and the vast northern plains 👇esa.int/Science_Explor…
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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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@ESA_Bepi What a beautiful set of images. I assume these will be the last with the Monitoring Cameras, or can they be used for the final approach next November? How confident that the three components will separate after such a long time together?
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Thank you, ground support team 🫡
Now let's get ready for the last trip before final arrival at destination.
Until then, here are my latest Mercury postcards, everyone! 👇
BepiColombo@BepiColombo
Our top three images from the sixth Mercury flyby are here! 🌗 See what they reveal about the mysterious planet here 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor… and in 🧵👇
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I have greeted Mercury in passing one last time before we meet again in 2026. 🤗
BepiColombo@BepiColombo
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 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
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Bepi รีทวีตแล้ว
Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.
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Hello, Mercury! 👋
Here we go again, one last swingby before I'm here to stay.
BepiColombo@BepiColombo
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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@ESA_Bepi What will happen to the propulsion module after entering Mercury’s orbit? 🛰️
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I saw Mercury in infrared light for the first time last week - the planet's sunlit side looks simply... radiant🥹
ESA Science@esascience
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 👇 esa.int/Science_Explor…
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Mercury flyby 5 was a success, can't wait to show you everything we saw!
ESA Science@esascience
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! 👇 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
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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!
BepiColombo@BepiColombo
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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Bepi รีทวีตแล้ว
#OTD 20 October 2018, launch of #ESA/@JAXA_en @BepiColombo on #Ariane5 #VA245 from @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou on its 7 year journey to #Mercury
@esascience @ESA_Bepi @CNES @Arianespace
🔗esa.int/Science_Explor…
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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 👉esa.int/Science_Explor…
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Bepi รีทวีตแล้ว
Sit back, relax, and enjoy this beautiful timelapse of last week's Mercury flyby, set to some special music inspired by a crater that appears in some images 😉
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