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Some of the images acquired of Mercury by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on 8 January 2025. The images were captured by the onboard monitoring cameras, which provide black-and-white 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots.

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Some of the images acquired of Mercury by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on 8 January 2025. The images were captured by the onboard monitoring cameras, which provide black-and-white 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots.
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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 08:37:43 JST Corey S Powell

New pics just in from planet Mercury!
Yesterday, the BepiColombo probe made an ultra-close flyby & took images with its monitoring cameras (selfie-cams, basically), so you see the spacecraft in the frame. Next year it will enter orbit around Mercury and begin full science.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Top_three_images_from_BepiColombo_s_sixth_Mercury_flyby #space #science #astronomy #nature

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