but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that BepiColombo has completed its final gravity assist maneuver around the planet, and it snapped some ...

Specifically, the team used MESSENGER observations to probe Mercury ' s spin and gravity. The results obtained indicate that, for the best match of the data, Mercury must have a large, solid inner ...

Venus and Mercury before it could reach the right speed to be captured by Mercury's gravity. This flyby marks the last time that the monitoring cameras will capture close-up images of Mercury ...

The spacecraft has been flying by Earth, Venus and Mercury since 2020, use the planets' gravity to help put it on the right course to enter Mercury's orbit. BepiColombo made its first Earth and ...