T he BepiColombo spacecraft has made its sixth and final flyby of the closest planet to the sun, Mercury, capturing some incredible images of the tiny world. The photos offer tantalizing hints ...

BepiColombo’s close Venus encounter. Venus has been a hot spot in the solar system this week, as two different missions have captured footage of their flybys of the planet.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft, which has been studying Mercury since its launch in 2018, flew just 183 miles above the planet's night side during its final flyby of the planet. What ...

BepiColombo's fifth Mercury flyby. On Sunday 1 December 2024, BepiColombo flew past the planet Mercury for the fifth time, readying itself for entering orbit around the solar system's mysterious ...

That sixth flyby of Mercury occurred Jan. 8, 2025. On that date, BepiColombo flew just 183 miles (295 kilometers) above the planet’s surface, then shortly after over its north pole.

A recent flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to ... This sixth BepiColombo mission — it was first launched in 2018 — was intended to give the spacecraft the ...

As for the images the cameras of the BepiColombo gathered during the six flybys, they will all be made available for the public in the Planetary Science Archive.

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's frigid night side. Seven minutes later, the probe emerged from the shadows ...

The purpose of these flybys for the BepiColombo mission is to de-accelerate the spacecraft so that it can stay on track to reach Mercury by 2025, according to Benkhoff.

The second Venus flyby of BepiColombo mission reveals stable atmosphere over decades. Journal: Nature Communications Published: 2023-12-12 DOI: ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft will start orbiting Mercury in 2026. Right now, it's conducting a series of flybys of the planet to get into position for that orbit.