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A sequence of
images captured by one of the selfie cameras on BepiColombo shortly before the
closest approach to Earth on April 9, 10 and 11, 2020. Credit: ESA/JAXA
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11 April 2020
Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com &
RocketSTEM
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The ESA/JAXA BepiColomo spacecraft just
captured an eerie combination sequence of selfie and Earth images moving in the
background as the robotic vessel was conducting a gravity assisted flyby of our
home planet amidst the COVID-19 crisis gripping the planet to set the probe on
the path to its ultimate destination – the planet Mercury.
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