After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is." The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury, the hard-to-reach, scorching hot iron world at the Solar System’s innermost frontier [1].

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1. arstechnica.com · After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury Sep 4, 2026

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