BepiColombo’s last close-ups of Earth

BepiColombo’s last close-ups of Earth

A sequence of images taken by one of the MCAM on board of the European-Japanese Mercury mission BepiColombo as the spacecraft zoomed past the planet during its first and only Earth flyby. Images in the sequence were taken in intervals of a few minutes from 03:03 UTC...
BepiColombo’s last views of Earth

BepiColombo’s last views of Earth

Earth and the Moon as seen by one of the selfie cameras on board of the European-Japanese Mercury-explorer BepiColombo in early March 2020. The camera (M-CAM 3) took the images from a distance of around 14 million km, during the spacecraft’s approach towards its...
Earth and an eclipsed Moon

Earth and an eclipsed Moon

SMART-1, ESA’s first mission to the Moon, captured this series of unique images of our home planet Earth and the Moon during a total lunar eclipse on 28 October 2004, when SMART-1 was about 290 000 km away from Earth and about 660 000 km from the Moon. Featured on ESA...