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The space probe lets the first Venus fly by on its… – AlKhaleej Today
The space probe lets the first Venus fly by on its…
A spaceship flying to Mercury swung off Venus Thursday, using Earths neighbor to adjust its course en route to the solar systems smallest and innermost planet. The European-Japanese probe BepiColombo, launched almost two years ago, took a black and white snapshot of Venus from a distance of 17,000 kilometers with some of its own instruments in the frame.
The flyby is the second of nine so-called planetary gravity aids that the spaceship needs for its seven-year journey to Mercury. The first ar…
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