MTM

🚀🛰️🌎🔜🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑🌑

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

👊👋 🫶 😑 💤

[Bepi @ESA_Bepi]

Farewell, robofriend! 🫶

Say hello to the Sun from my side 🥹

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

✅🫡🥹 ...📡

[Bepi @ESA_Bepi]

I'm ready for separation, ground control! 🫡

(well, as ready as one can be to never see a friend again 🥹)

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

@ESA_Bepi 👍

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

⌛️🥹😭

[Bepi @ESA_Bepi]

The time I eagerly waited for, but also dreaded in a way, has come 🥹

Today, @JAXA_MMO and myself have to say goodbye to dear old friend @ESA_MTM, who's powered us all our journey so far.

This also means we're getting close to Mercury!

Follow along 👉 https://t.co/ACjwzwEqeT

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🌑⤴️🫨

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

🤔In space, no one can hear you... make an orbit-bending flyby of Mercury. So BepiColombo recorded its vibrations and turned them into sounds

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🛰️🌑⤴️#️⃣6⃣ 🙌
➕📽️ 🎁

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

📽️Sit down, relax and enjoy #BepiColombo’s views as it moved gracefully around Mercury on 7-8 January 2025.
🎼🎶Playing in the background is The Hebrides overture by Felix Mendelssohn - can you guess why?

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🛰️🌑⤴️#️⃣6⃣ 🙌
🌑 📸 😍

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

Our top three images from the sixth Mercury flyby are here! 🌗

See what they reveal about the mysterious planet here 👉 https://t.co/9cLKYf5STe and in 🧵👇

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🌍✅
🟠✅
🟠✅
🌑#️⃣1️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣2️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣3️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣4️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣5️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣6️⃣✅

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

On 8 January, at 06:59 CET, Bepi, Mio and MTM got as close as 295 km to Mercury’s surface. This sixth flyby is the last time the #BepiColombo trio greet the planet together 👉 https://t.co/jheNFY2pQE

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🖼️➡️🖥️✅

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

Images and other scientific data from this morning's close approach to Mercury by #bepicolombo are safely on the ground! We'll be sharing images from the closest approach tomorrow.

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🌑🛰️💨

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

BepiColombo is reaching its closest approach to Mercury now during its sixth encounter with the planet. It's 06:58:52 CET, and the spacecraft is 295km from the surface. #bepicolombo

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🥁🥁🥁
📅 0️⃣1️⃣ 0⃣6⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5⃣
🕚 0⃣6⃣ 5⃣9⃣
🛰️🌑⤴️#️⃣6⃣

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

🛰️🌑We're gearing up for BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby, coming up this Wednesday!
ℹ️Closest approach is 295 km at 06:59 CET
We'll investigate Mercury's cold night side, north pole craters, and the vast northern plains
👇https://t.co/ec7qs13G4E

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🙋‍♀️

[ESA Science @esascience]

Last week, @BepiColombo became the first spacecraft to image planet Mercury in mid-infrared light 🔥
Using @MERTISonBepi, the mission will uncover what Mercury's surface is made of 👇
https://t.co/XdbDSaZzXV

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🌍✅
🟠✅
🟠✅
🌑#️⃣1️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣2️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣3️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣4️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣5️⃣✅
🌑#️⃣6️⃣➡️2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

[ESA Science @esascience]

Yesterday @BepiColombo greeted Mercury from just 37628 km away, using @MERTISonBepi to take the first ever space-based pictures of the planet in mid-infrared wavelengths. We'll reveal what Bepi saw in the coming week! 👇
https://t.co/2xiKtxcvkW

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🌑📸🎉

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

Mercury in motion... One of the #BepiColombo selfie-cameras captured Mercury today as the spacecraft rushed by the planet at almost 3 km per second. 🛰️💨
This time-lapse of unprocessed images was captured during 10:26-11:18 UTC today (11:26-12:18 CET), between 53700 and 48000 km from the planet's surface. 📸

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🥁🥁🥁

📅 0️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣

🕚 1️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣

🛰️🌑⤴️#️⃣5️⃣

[ESA Science @esascience]

This Sunday, @BepiColombo will fly past Mercury for the fifth time. Here's an overview of what you can expect 👇
https://t.co/Q5c5mdFpkB

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#OTD 20 October 2018, launch of #ESA/@JAXA_en @BepiColombo on #Ariane5 #VA245 from @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou on its 7 year journey to #Mercury
@esascience @ESA_Bepi @CNES @Arianespace
🔗https://t.co/Hqvl5cnaGQ

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🆕
☀️💨🌗🧲⤴️🛰️#️⃣3️⃣
👏@JAXA_MMO
#BepiColombo #MercuryFlyby

[Bepi @ESA_Bepi]

WOW, it only took 30 minutes for Mio to collect enough data during our third #MercuryFlyby to map out the dynamic features of Mercury’s magnetic environment.

Great job @JAXA_MMO! 👏🤩
Can’t wait for our dual observations once in orbit!

Full story 👉https://t.co/w8qtR8KnTQ

[MTM @ESA_MTM]

🌑🛰️👀🧀😍

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

🌑 Fly over Mercury with #BepiColombo 👇 and discover the newly named Stoddart crater, after artist Margaret Olrog Stoddart, and the larger Raphael crater.
https://t.co/bT3qYkJH1e
#EPSC2024