Incredible pictures offer new glimpse at Mercury after groundbreaking mission
dailystar.co.ukDaily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Incredible pictures of Mercury have been released after a groundbreaking mission to the distant planet.
The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft captured their first up-close look at the planet during a weekend flyby on Friday, October 1, revealing a rocky world covered with craters.The encounter marked the first of six flybys for BepiColombo, in an effort to slow itself enough to enter orbit around the planet in 2025.BepiColombo took its first official photo of Mercury at 11.44pm with its Mercury Transfer Module Monitoring Camera 2 as the probe was about 1,502 miles away from the planet, Space.com reports.According to the European Space Agency, the craft made its closest approach to.
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