Views of Earth from BepiColombo’s flyby

Views of Earth from BepiColombo’s flyby

Apr 17, 2020 | Space mission

A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first – and only – flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed to adjust its trajectory en route to its destination, Mercury. The spacecraft, equipped...
BepiColombo’s final glimpses of Earth

BepiColombo’s final glimpses of Earth

Apr 11, 2020 | Highlight, Space mission

Series of final glimpses of Earth on 10 and 11 April 2020, as BepiColombo moved away from our planet after the gravity-assist flyby performed in the early hours of 10 April. The images, showing Earth as a receding crescent against the darkness of space, were captured...
BepiColombo’s last close-ups of Earth

BepiColombo’s last close-ups of Earth

Apr 10, 2020 | Highlight, Space mission

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

Mar 30, 2020 | Space mission

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

Jul 15, 2019 | Space mission

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...