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Top Five Mercury mysteries that BepiColombo will solve
Apr 15, 2020 (ESA)
1. Where did Mercury form? Only a little larger than the Moon, Mercury zooms around the Sun on an elliptical orbit every 88 days. At its closest, the planet get...
BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to Mercury
Apr 11, 2020 (ESA)
Launched in 2018, BepiColombo is on a seven-year journey to the smallest and innermost planet orbiting the Sun, which holds important clues about the formation ...
BepiColombo Earth flyby enables unique instrument scan of Moon
Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)
As early as 9 April, with its Earth-facing side illuminated by the Sun, the Moon will be observed for the first time in the thermal infrared and examined for it...
Spot BepiColombo during its 'goodbye flyby'
Apr 06, 2020 (ESA)
By the time of the flyby, BepiColombo will have travelled almost 1.4 billion km - roughly nine times the distance between Earth and the Sun - since the European...
Why is BepiColombo back?
Apr 06, 2020 (ESA)
According to Newton's first law of motion, objects travel in a straight line, unless an external force makes them stop or change direction. Planets would travel...
Europe to Conduct BepiColombo Flyby Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Mar 31, 2020 (ESA)
BepiColombo, launched in October 2018, is currently orbiting the Sun at a similar distance as Earth. On 10 April, at about 06:25 am (CEST), the spacecraft will ...
Vast collapsed terrains on Mercury might be windows into ancient habitability
Mar 17, 2020 (SPX)
Chaotic terrains on Mercury opposite the large Caloris impact basin are landscapes produced by the removal of vast volumes of upper crustal volatiles, the paper...
Mercury's 400 C heat may help it make its own ice
Mar 16, 2020 (SPX)
As with Earth, asteroids delivered most of Mercury's water, the scientific consensus holds. But the extreme daytime heat could be combining with the minus 200-d...
Mercury to pass across middle of sun Monday in rarity
Nov 08, 2019 (UPI)
A Mercury transit -- 36 millions from the sun -- won't been seen from North American for another 30 years and anywhere until 2032, according to NASA. Beginning ...
Scientists to observe last transit of Mercury until 2032
Nov 07, 2019 (SPX)
Pasachoff has observed transits of Mercury that occurred in 1999, 2003, 2006, and 2016; the next transit of Mercury visible from Earth after the 2019 event will...
Scientists find evidence Mercury has a solid inner core
Apr 18, 2019 (SPX)
Some scientists compare Mercury to a cannonball because its metal core fills nearly 85 percent of the volume of the planet. This large core - huge compared to t...
BepiColombo is ready for its long cruise
Apr 08, 2019 (ESA)
BepiColombo started its seven-year long journey to the Solar System's innermost planet on 20 October 2018, lifting off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's space...
Researchers model glaciation on Mercury's poles
Dec 28, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers at the University of Maine modeled the glaciation process on the planet closest to the sun. Most of Mercury is rather hot. But a few of its polar cr...
BepiColombo's first routine firing in space
Dec 19, 2018 (ESA)
After meticulous testing of the spacecraft's four high-tech ion thrusters, the mission team have now fired up the spacecraft for its first thruster burn 'arc'. ...
BepiColombo now firing on all cylinders
Dec 06, 2018 (ESA)
On Sunday, BepiColombo carried out the first successful manoeuver using two of its four electric propulsion thrusters. After more than a week of testing which s...
Electric blue thrusters propelling BepiColombo to Mercury
Nov 26, 2018 (ESA)
This week sees the in-flight commissioning and test firing of the four thrusters - with one or two firing at a time - of the Solar Electric Propulsion System th...
Bepicolombo magnetometer boom deployed
Oct 29, 2018 (ESA)
Following launch last weekend, and having completed the 'launch and early orbit phase' on Monday, confirming the spacecraft and systems were healthy and functio...
Bepicolombo's first space selfies
Oct 23, 2018 (ESA)
In the hours immediately after launch, critical operations took place, including deployments of the solar wings and antennas. The Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) ...
Strofio will measure Mercury's exosphere on BepiColombo mission
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
"An exosphere is different from an atmosphere," said Dr. Stefano Livi, an Institute Scientist who leads the Strofio experiment, funded by NASA's Discovery Missi...
Mission control ready for Mercury
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
Experts from mission operations, flight dynamics, ground stations and software systems, together with representatives from science and management teams, and the...
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