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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/markmccaughrean/statuses/113129799296694944">Mark McCaughrean (markmccaughrean@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 00:06:59 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean" title="markmccaughrean@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/40452-48-20221126151148.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Mark McCaughrean" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Mark McCaughrean</a></section><article><p>Last week, the ESA/JAXA <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BepiColombo" rel="tag">#BepiColombo</a> mission made its fourth &amp; closest gravity assist flyby at Mercury, en-route to entering orbit around our innermost planet in November 2026 🌚🛰️</p><p>The spacecraft passed close over the Vivaldi crater, so the music I've chosen to accompany the timelapse video I made from the many monitoring camera images perhaps won't come as any surprise 🎶🤷♂️</p><p>Hope you enjoy it 🙂👍</p><p>Official ESA release &amp; 4K version: <a href="https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/09/BepiColombo_s_fourth_Mercury_flyby_the_movie" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/09/BepiColombo_s_fourth_Mercury_flyby_the_movie</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" rel="tag">#SpaceScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceExploration" rel="tag">#SpaceExploration</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3662028#notice-7175208">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-09-14T00:06:59+09:00" title="Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 00:06:59 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/113129799296694944" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/113129799296694944">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3164362">A timelapse video comprising many images of the fourth BepiColombo flyby of the planet Mercury last week. The planet appears against a black background in the three different monitoring cameras, initially close up and then receding into the distance.</a></label><br><video poster="" controls="controls"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/129/776/649/077/849/original/89ab10e92bdf405f.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source></video></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.esa.int</div><h5><a href="https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/09/BepiColombo_s_fourth_Mercury_flyby_the_movie#SpaceScience">BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby: the movie</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>