A black-and-white picture of part of the planet Mercury showing lots of craters and other surface features, seen against a black sky with some parts of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft in the foreground.

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   Mark McCaughrean (markmccaughrean@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 06:03:08 JST Mark McCaughrean

   The main set of images of Mercury as seen by ESA & JAXA's #BepiColombo mission last night during its fourth & closest flyby yet have now been published.

   They're available to download on ESA's website, but they've been enlarged to add logos & captions, making them too big to post on Mastodon 🤷♂️

   So here they all in two toots as a preview, resized to the original 1024x1024 pixels, for you to enjoy.

   Happy to have worked on them 🙂👍

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   https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_s_best_images_yet_highlight_fourth_Mercury_flyby

   #SpaceScience #SpaceExploration