BepiColombo took the images during a gravity-assist flyby designed to slow the probe down.
. During the maneuver, spacecraft operators used three monitoring cameras mounted on the spacecraft's body to capture views of the planet rolling by below.
The video, released by the European Space Agency on Thursday , consists of 217 photographs taken during BepiColombo's retreat from the planet. The sequence starts with the probe 1,111 miles above and ends at a distance of 206,142 miles . Unfortunately, the cameras couldn't capture BepiColombo's closest approach, which occurred while the spacecraft was on the planet's night side. The European/Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has made its third gravity-assist flyby at Mercury on June 19. During these maneuvers, the probe uses the gravity of its target planet to brake against the gravitational pull of the sun.
During the flyby, the probe got a glimpse of a range of geological features including a 135-mile-wide impact crater, which had just been named after Jamaican/British artist Edna Manley, and a 370-mile-long tectonic cliff the Beagle Rupes, previously photographed by NASA'sBepiColombo scientists used the images and previous data collected by Messenger to recreate a section of the planet's surface in 3D. This 3D depiction is attached at the end of the video.
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