Look at the third flyby of BepiColombo near Mercury

In the first part of the video, which consists of 217 images captured by the BepiColombo M-CAM 3 surveillance camera, the

the side of the planet quickly comes into viewspaceship. Then the light boundary between day and night becomes more distinct. At one point, Mercury appears to hover momentarily between the spacecraft's body and the antenna before BepiColombo speeds away.

The sequence of images starts at 19:46:25 UTC on June 19, 2023, at an altitude of 1,789 km above the planet's surface and ending at 20:34:25 UTC on June 20, 2023, when BepiColombo is at a distance of 331,755 km.

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Music composed by ILĀ. Shape from shading and animation processing (using Unity) by K. Wohlfahrt and M. Tenthoff (TU Dortmund) based on methods described by Tenthoff et al. (2020) and Domingue et al. (2015) with the global elevation model from Becker et al. (2016).

The music for the episode was composed by ILĀ using artificial intelligence tools developed by the Machine Intelligence for Musical Audio (MIMA) group at the University of Sheffield.

BepiColombo is a joint robotic space mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to explore Mercury.

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