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BepiColombo became the third spacecraft to reach Mercury after Mariner-10 (1975) and Messenger (2011), the latter ended its operational services in 2015.
The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, the European Space Agency said Saturday.
BepiColumbo is a joint ESA-JAXA mission that is currently in space conducting operations. Recently, the ESA shared an image of the planet Mercury taken on