#MercuryFlyby

A flawless, radiant, #Mercuryflyby After a flawless flyby of Mercury, @BepiColombo is starting to feel the heat.pic.twitter.com/4di2Jux5nB

Happy new year! Our main event to look forward to in #2022 will be our second #MercuryFlyby in June, taking us within 200 km of the planet again #StayTuned! https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/10/BepiColombo_journey_to_Mercury …pic.twitter.com/Y6FJdlheHG

#ICYMI we had an exciting weekend flying by #Mercury for the first time with #BepiColombo! Enjoy the first #MercuryFlyby impressions here https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_s_first_views_of_Mercury … #ExploreFartherpic.twitter.com/rV3En0t528

One of the first photos taken during this first, flawless flyby of Mercury https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/10/Hello_Mercury … #MercuryFlyby #HelloMercurypic.twitter.com/cupa6wzyFs

WOW! Here is #Mercury! Some beautiful details visible in our @BepiColombo monitoring camera image. #StayTuned for more! https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/10/Hello_Mercury … #MercuryFlyby #BepiColombo #ExploreFartherpic.twitter.com/aK9etmcnUd

In celebration of @ESA_Bepi arriving at #Mercury here’s the best shot I’ve taken from London of the innermost planet. #MercuryFlyby #BepiColombo #london #astronomy #Astrophotographypic.twitter.com/5IkG1tgyqu

Coming up late tonight, @bepicolombo's first #MercuryFlyby! We're getting excited to see the mission's destination planet for the first time through our spacecraft's eyes We expect first image to be ready Saturday morning – full detailshttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Mercury_ahead …pic.twitter.com/XsKSFdp7s2

#CloseApproach! @BepiColombo is now as close to Mercury as it will get in this first of six #MercuryFlyby(s). Travelling at a maximum velocity of 7.8 km/s with respect to the innermost planet, its passing just 200 km above Mercury's surface. Pictures to follow in a few hours! pic.twitter.com/3pxc3FA9hy

Tonight, @BepiColombo will perform the first of six #Mercuryflyby(s), each honing the spacecraft's trajectory with the goal of shedding enough energy – after its two years ‘falling’ towards the Sun – to be caught by the innermost planet’s gravity https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Navigating_a_very_close_approach …pic.twitter.com/oOqo3mrp1C

#MercuryFlyby ahead! #ICYMI Details and expectations for @BepiColombo's first gravity assist at #Mercury tonighthttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Mercury_ahead …pic.twitter.com/DxCEtneOfl

Are you ready? @BepiColombo's first encounter with #Mercury, 23:34 UTC, 1 October (01:34 CEST, 2 October) Follow @ESAscience and @ESA_Bepi #MercuryFlyby #StayTuned https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Mercury_ahead …!pic.twitter.com/rRweSr4L9A

More #MercuryFlyby images? Here you go! With thanks to @ingmarspace @AnilSebastianUK for the soundtrack! https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/10/Meeting_Mercury … #ExploreFarther #BepiColombopic.twitter.com/08YjSN59hj

Shout out to ESA’s #Estrack network and our three deep space dishes in New Norcia, Cebreros and Malargue who have provided remarkable measurements allowing us to track @BepiColombo’s trajectory, 110 million kilometres away, to the nearest 500 m #MercuryFlyby pic.twitter.com/s9hGNEbpN6

Counting down to @BepiColombo's first #MercuryFlyby tomorrow evening, 23:34 UTC (01:34 CEST, 2 October). @ESA_Bepi will be flying in from the nightside, with the first images taken a few minutes after closest approach, and being sent back on Saturday https://esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Mercury_ahead …pic.twitter.com/6paRBocoJO

It really doesn’t get more bizarrely glamorous than this – sitting in my garden shed as it pours with rain outside & leaks inside, listening to Vaughn Williams, & processing fresh images of a 450°C planet one hundred million kilometres from Earth #MercuryFlyby pic.twitter.com/SZ7lALcidX

Bravo! Images of the planet Mercury via @BepiColombo #MercuryFlyby #ExploreFartherpic.twitter.com/nF8h6SNKXj

Mercury looks so happy to have visitors : ) #ESA #JAXA #NASA #BepiColombo #Mercury #mercuryflyby #space #smilepic.twitter.com/VES1udUTqP

We're getting ready for @bepicolombo's first glimpse of its destination – planet Mercury – this weekend! It will make a close pass of 200 km in the first of six #MercuryFlyby before entering orbit in 2025. Details: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Mercury_ahead … #ExploreFartherpic.twitter.com/AgZ8FZQX5y