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Timelapse of BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mendelssohn's Hebrides was a beautiful music choice.

The thumbnail says "last flyby". Is this "last" as in "most recent" or as in "final"?

[โ€“] neme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A quick search says final, because it is supposed to enter Mercury's orbit late this year and then split into two different spacecrafts: Europe's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter