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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