BepiColombo Will Reach Closest Point To Mercury Tonight

Thanks to today’s technologies and studies, the most realistic data can be provided about space, which has always been the center of attention and mystery for humanity. With the advancement of technology, space studies have had a strategic importance for countries. Space domination plays a diplomatic role, apart from scientific data, for the benefit of humanity.

In addition to all these factors, life is sought on other planets due to the world’s population, wars and human-induced problems. Of course, it would be more logical to use the scientific efforts to be spent on population reduction studies, which appear as a conspiracy theory, to find life on another planet. BepiColombo, which set off for the Mercury mission in 2018, will approach Mercury and take an image and fulfill its probe mission. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. In addition, it is defined as the smallest planet after Pluto resigned from planetary status.

Mercury will approach within 200 kilometers of its surface

BepiColombo, which set off in 2018 as a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is recorded as the second Mercury mission in history. One part of BepiColombo was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), and the other part was developed by the Japanese Aerospace Agency (JAXA). The mission, carried out jointly by the two major space agencies, will have reached an important stage tonight, approaching within 200 kilometers of Mercury’s surface for the probe mission and image acquisition.

At this stage, BepiColombo will take black and white images from Mercury with its selfie cameras. The images are not expected to be of high quality, of course, but they will come in handy for experts and scientists to study Mercury’s surface. The images to be captured are expected to reach Earth tomorrow (October 2).