This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018, a manoeuvre that will assist the spacecraft in entering orbit around Mercury late next year.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft, which has been studying Mercury since its launch in 2018 ... BepiColombo's monitoring camera 1 (M-CAM 1) captured its first close-up views of the ...