BepiColombo has sent back new images of Mercury.
On December 1st, the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo conducted its fifth of six scheduled flybys of Mercury, passing within 48,000 kilometers of the surface of the planet closest to the Sun.
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BepiColombo has for the first time utilized the Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS), enabling the study of the planet's surface in the mid-infrared range. This will allow for the determination of the mineralogical composition of Mercury's surface layer.
