In Photos: Spacecraft Snaps Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Mercury’s Craters From Only 125 Miles Away - Forbes

The BepiColumbo spacecraft spent 40 minutes taking images of the closest planet to the Sun.

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as ... [+] the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 2… [+5381 chars]

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