News BepiColombo Mission News

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http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...uct_BepiColombo_flyby_amid_coronavirus_crisis

 

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On 10 April, BepiColombo will be visible to amateur and professional astronomers during its first – and only – Earth flyby, as the spacecraft makes its way to Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar System. The best place to spot it is the Southern Hemisphere, but observers in southern locations of the Northern Hemisphere might also catch a parting view of the spacecraft.

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...mbo/Spot_BepiColombo_during_its_goodbye_flyby

 

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Shouldn't Ascension Island be a pretty nice spot to spot BepiColombo?

 

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Shouldn't Ascension Island be a pretty nice spot to spot BepiColombo?

That...or St. Helena - which will be closer. :tiphat:

 

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On 10 April 2020, BepiColombo will make a flyby of Earth, coming within just a couple of thousand kilometres of our planet’s outer atmosphere. Why? The spacecraft needs to shed ‘orbital energy’, and it will use our planet’s gravity to do so.

http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Why_is_BepiColombo_back

 

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Zoom past Earth with BepiColombo in virtual reality simulation

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/V...ith_BepiColombo_in_virtual_reality_simulation

Join us for a live streamed conversation with BepiColombo experts following Friday morning’s Earth flyby.

Watch live on ESA Web TV from 15:00 GMT (17:00 CEST) on 10 April.

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...ombo/Live_discussion_with_BepiColombo_experts

 

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http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/I...sing_in_on_Earth_ahead_of_flyby_full_sequence

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...takes_last_snaps_of_Earth_en_route_to_Mercury

 

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I don't know why but seeing that marble appear and moving along always is wonderful

 

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BepiColombo passing through Earth's shadow in the morning on 10 April 2020 shortly after its close flyby of Earth as captured by a telescope operated by the ESA Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre in Chile. Each frame of the animation was obtained with 2-second exposure as the 25 cm telescope tracked the spacecraft. The BepiColombo spacecraft can be seen as a small dot in the middle of the image surrounded with trailed lines moving through the field of view representing stars.

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/04/BepiColombo_shadow_transit_during_Earth_flyby

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52229667

 

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A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first – and only – flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed to adjust its trajectory en route to its destination, Mercury. The spacecraft, equipped with three 'selfie' cameras, captured a series of stunning images of our home planet as it closed in, approached, and finally departed.

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/04/Views_of_Earth_from_BepiColombo_s_flyby

 

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In early April, as the European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft was approaching our home planet ahead of the first flyby in its seven-year journey to Mercury, mission scientists invited amateur astronomers to observe the event from Earth and share their photos of this unique event.

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...ky_with_stars_photo_contest_winners_announced

 

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Listen to the sounds of BepiColombo's Earth flyby

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...en_to_the_sounds_of_BepiColombo_s_Earth_flyby

 

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A sequence of daily images of Earth taken by the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft as it moved away from our planet after its gravity-assist flyby on 10 April 2020, on its path towards the inner Solar System and its final destination, Mercury. The first image in this sequence was taken on 13 April, 1.3 million km away, and the last image on 5 May, around 8 million km away.

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/05/BepiColombo_keeping_an_eye_on_Earth_from_afar

 

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BepiColombo flyby of Venus
07/10/2020

BepiColombo flyby of Venus

www.esa.int

 

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BepiColombo images Venus during close approach

BepiColombo images Venus during close approach

www.esa.int

 

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BepiColombo: Europe's mission to Mercury returns first pictures

The BepiColombo spacecraft gets its first glimpse of the Solar System's innermost planet.

www.bbc.co.uk