The first image from BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby is here! 🤩
The #Esa/ @jaxajp BepiColombo mission captured this beautiful view of Mercury’s rich geological landscape on 23 June 2022 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for its second of six gravity assist manoeuvres at Mercury.
Parts of the spacecraft can also be seen in the image with the magnetometer boom roughly following the ‘terminator’– the boundary between the night and day side of the planet.
Large impact craters can clearly be made out along with other geological features such as smooth plains and scarps.
Once in orbit at the end of 2025, the BepiColombo mission will study all aspects of the innermost planet to better understand the origin and evolution of a planet close to its parent star.
📸 ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Space station astronauts (clockwise from bottom) Jessica Watkins, Kayla Barron, and Samantha Cristoforetti are pictured checking out systems inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.
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Fact ! 🤣😅 But the good thing is I am now ready to share lots of remaining material from the mission, and to document the next steps of the journey!! We need some positive news… It’s hard, though, to find the time to share my adventures on social media, entirely by myself and on top of work hours… but hey no one said being an astronaut was going to be easy. Just out of curiosity… would anyone be willing to help? 😉
Heureusement j’ai plein de photos/vidéos restantes (y compris les coulisses 😉😇), et après un peu de repos les nouvelles étapes vont reprendre qui m’emmèneront je l’espère une nouvelle fois dans l’espace ! Pas facile en ce moment de conjuguer travail intense, un peu de repos et de temps pour les miens, et le partage de mes aventures sur les réseaux sociaux… surtout tout seul ! Juste par curiosité : il y en a qui seraient prêts à me donner un coup de main ? 😇😉🙃
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