BepiColombo Mercury Mission Poster | ESA

This poster shows artist’s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury: European Space Agency’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (foreground) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (background).

The ESA-built Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) will carry the orbiters to Mercury using a combination of solar electric propulsion and gravity assist flybys, with one flyby of Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury, before entering orbit at Mercury in late 2025.

Learn more about BepiColombo: http://bit.ly/ESAsBepiColombo

The image of Mercury was taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft.

Credit: ESA/NASA
Release Date: July 2017

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