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The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed.
The flyby, which took place on Monday (June 19), saw BepiColombo whizz merely 150 miles (236 kilometers) above the surface of the scorching innermost planet of the solar system. During the maneuver, spacecraft operators used three monitoring cameras mounted on the spacecraft's body to capture views of the planet rolling by below.
The video, released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday (June 22), consists of 217 photographs taken during BepiColombo's retreat from the planet. The sequence starts with the probe 1,111 miles (1,789 km) above Mercury and ends at a distance of 206,142 miles (331,755 km). Unfortunately, the cameras couldn't capture BepiColombo's closest approach, which occurred while the spacecraft was on the planet's night side.
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