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ESA/JAXA BepiColombo snaps new images of Venus during a close approach – SlashGear

A joint mission conducted by the ESA and the Japanese space agency JAXA called BepiColombo recently made a close approach to Venus. The close approach happened…

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A joint mission conducted by the ESA and the Japanese space agency JAXA called BepiColombo recently made a close approach to Venus. The close approach happened on October 15, and the main sequence of 64 images was captured by the Monitoring Camera 2 aboard the Mercury Transfer Module.
The images were snapped from 40 minutes before until 15 minutes after the closest approach of 10,720 kilometers from Venus. Images were taken every 52 seconds and were black-and-white. The images are relatively low…

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