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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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#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration
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…www.esa.int
Here you go, folks – the first image from last night's Mercury flyby by BepiColombo, ESA & JAXA's mission to our innermost planet.
The south pole is near the top of the image, right at the terminator between night & day, where there a some craters that never see sunlight & may even hold ice.
This is just a first teaser image – we'll be publishing some very exciting images from the closest part of the flyby later on today 🙂👍
#SpaceScience #SpaceExploration #Photography
Poetry in motion 🌕🛰️🌏
A week ago today, ESA's Jupiter-bound JUICE mission was approaching Earth, a day after its close flyby of the Moon.
You'll have seen some of the monitoring camera shots that @stim3on & I processed, & here's the chaser: a timelapse of both flybys that I set to some brilliant music by Gautier Acher 🎶
The full 4K version has been released by ESA here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/08/Juice_s_lunar-Earth_flyby_the_movie/?1
Credit: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
#SpaceFlight #SpaceScience #SpaceExploration #Astrodon #Astronomy
