The European and Japanese team behind the BepiColombo mission to Mercury has shared the first image of the spacecraft’s recent flyby of the distant planet. The black-and-white image shows the ...

The European and Japanese mission BepiColombo has made its first flyby of Mercury, capturing images of the planet it will eventually be exploring in more depth.

The images were captured with the spacecraft’s three monitoring cameras, called M-CAM 1, 2, and 3, which take black-and-white images with a resolution of 1024 x 1024.

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

Scientists on the ESA's first mission to Mercury have confirmed the outgoing BepiColombo spacecraft's imaging instruments are in working order, with the probe snapping its first selfies and ...

The ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo has completed another flyby of Mercury, capturing new images of the shrinking planet.

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM/CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The transfer module carries three black-and-white cameras, which engineers can use to monitor the BepiColombo mission to confirm that different pieces of the ...

The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a payload of two orbiters, has sent us its first image from space.

The transfer module is equipped with three monitoring cameras, which provide black-and-white snapshots in 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution. The other two cameras will be activated tomorrow and are ...

During the flyby, it snapped a new image of the planet in haunting black and white. BepiColombo is a joint mission from the European Space Agency and Japan's space agency JAXA.

This image of the planet Mercury taken by the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft Mercury Transfer Module’s Monitoring Camera 2 on Oct. 1, 2021. (European Space Agency/AP) ...

JAXA and the ESA are currently operating a joint mission called BepiColombo that flew by Venus on August 10, 2001. The images below were shared by mission controllers showing a black-and-white ...