Zoom past Earth with BepiColombo in virtual reality simulation

Video: 00:02:55 With a simple Google Cardboard-style virtual reality (VR) viewer, you can experience how it feels to be a spacecraft hurtling past Earth. This 360-degree VR simulation of a flyby manoeuvre performed by ESA's Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft takes you on a trip past Earth at the distance of only 12 700 km, closer than the orbit of Europe's navigational satellites Galileo. The simulation displays the field of view of two of BepiColombo's science instruments (MERTIS and PHEBUS) ...