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The main set of images of Mercury as seen by ESA & JAXA's #BepiColombo mission last night during its fourth & closest flyby yet have now been published.

They're available to download on ESA's website, but they've been enlarged to add logos & captions, making them too big to post on Mastodon 🤷‍♂️

So here they all in two toots as a preview, resized to the original 1024x1024 pixels, for you to enjoy.

Happy to have worked on them 🙂👍

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https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_s_best_images_yet_highlight_fourth_Mercury_flyby

#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration

A black-and-white picture of part of the planet Mercury showing lots of craters and other surface features, seen against a black sky with some parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture of part of the planet Mercury showing lots of craters and other surface features, seen against a black sky with some parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.
A black-and-white picture of part of the planet Mercury showing lots of craters and other surface features, seen against a black sky with some parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.

BepiColombo's best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing images of two special impact craters as it uses the little planet’s gravity to steer itself on course to enter orbit around Merc…
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