BepiColumbo mission shares its first image of Mercury

BepiColumbo is a joint ESA-JAXA mission that is currently in space conducting operations. Recently, the ESA shared an image of the planet Mercury taken on October 1, 2021. The image was snapped as the BepiColumbo spacecraft flew past Mercury for any gravity assist maneuver. The image was taken at 23:44:12 UTC using the Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 2. When …