Mark McCaughreanThird time’s a charm 🙂
Close-up pictures from last night’s #MercuryFlyby of our ESA/JAXA #BepiColombo, the third in a sequence of six, are out now 🛰️📷
Fun day processing images & discussing geological features on the surface – annotated versions in the article below.
One key feature is the crater newly named for Jamaican artist, Edna Manley.
A trio of images highlight BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts its trajectory for entering Mercury orbit in 2025.