BepiColombo probe captures stunning up-close views of Mercury's landscape during third flyby.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft captured a stunning sequence of 217 images of Mercury during a gravity assist flyby on June 19. The video shows the planet rolling by below as the spacecraft retreated from it. The cameras couldn't capture BepiColombo's closest approach, which occurred while the spacecraft was on the planet's night side. BepiColombo has already conducted two Mercury flybys in 2021 and 2022 and will perform three more before it finally sheds enough energy to enter its orbit.