BepiColombo Mission's Mercury Flyby Success

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Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter

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BepiColombo's best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

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BepiColombo completes its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury .

The spacecraft flew down to 165 km above the planet’s surface for the first time.

Images from the mission's three monitoring cameras have arrived back on Earth .

They reveal a clear-lit surface with clear signs of 4.6 billion years of bombardment by asteroids.

BepiColombo 's main science camera is shielded during the journey to Mercury , but it is expected to take much higher-resolution images after arrival in orbit in 2027 .

The spacecraft's suite of science instruments will reveal the invisible about the Solar System’s most mysterious planet.

Most of the instruments were switched on during this flyby, measuring the magnetic, plasma and particle environment around the spacecraft.

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