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    BepiColombo spacecraft in orbit around Mercury

    Date: 18 Jan 2011
    Copyright: ESA

    BepiColombo consists of two spacecraft that will orbit Mercury. The JAXA-led Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) follows a higher-apocentre orbit and investigates the planet's magnetic field (depicted in blue in this animation). The ESA-led Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) traces a lower-apocentre orbit and is designed to study the planet itself.


    Last Update: 12 Oct 2011

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