A New Exoplanet and a Martian Helicopter
The pictures are in from BepiColombo’s Earth flyby last week. The European-Japanese spacecraft, which launched in 2018, used Earth’s gravity to swing toward the inner solar system. As it flew past, the spacecraft snapped shots of our planet using its black-and-white monitoring cameras. Learn why we explore Mercury and what BepiColombo hopes to discover there.
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