- Planet Mercury it is at the center of a very important mission that ESA and JAXA have been carrying out for almost two years.
- Planet Mercury it is the location where the BepiColombo spacecraft sent by the two space agencies will arrive, recording an incredible image of the Earth.
- Planet Mercury is the main objective of the spacecraft, but it will not arrive there until 2025.
Planet Mercury it is the main objective of an impressive mission that is in full swing at the moment, and thanks to it we can see today an incredible image recorded by ESA and JAXA. ESA is the European Space Agency, and JAXA is the Japanese Space Agency, both sending to the planet Mercury a spacecraft that will carefully monitor the planet, and that will send a multitude of images and data to Earth.
Planet Mercury is the location where this spaceship will arrive, but before going there it revolved around the Earth, and recorded the animated image that you can see below. We are talking about a new image of the Earth that was taken by the spacecraft heading towards the planet Mercury, and we are talking about a new perspective for researchers.
Planet Mercury: INCREDIBLE Image with the Earth in the Premiere
Planet Mercury is the ultimate goal of the spaceship's journey, starting in 2018 when it was launched into a somewhat opposite area, and now returning to use Earth to get there. The spaceship of ESA and JAXA, which has the name BepiColombo, will use the gravity of the Earth to reach the planet Mercury, its speed of travel will increase, but it will arrive there somewhere in the spring of 2025, so in a very long time.
"These selfies from space are humbling, showing our planet, the common home we share, in one of the most troubling and uncertain times many of us have lived through." Says Günther Hasinger, ESA's scientific director.
Now imagine you are watching this in real life listening to my awesome @Spotify soundtrack! What would be your favorite #BepiColomboEarthFlyby song? https://t.co/owVMd1juQq pic.twitter.com/yiEYXXPzqk
— Bepi (@ESA_Bepi) April 10, 2020
Planet Mercury it will be orbited by the ship from quite a distance, but the picture above of the Earth was recorded from a distance of almost 13.000 kilometers from our planet. On its way to the planet Mercury, the ship will certainly record other more than interesting images, and the two space agencies will certainly want to present them to us to show us what the instruments used for the long-term mission are capable of.
Planet Mercury it has not been very carefully monitored by any space agency until now, but the collaboration between ESA and JAXA shows us that we are still talking about a cosmic body that is very important.
