Eight years after its launch, BepiColombo is finally reaching the planet Mercury!
Join Dr Becky Smethurst, Izzie Clarke and Robert Massey as they explore how BepiColombo is going to study Mercury’s surface and what it hopes to reveal about the planet’s magnetosphere.
🛰️ ESA's Professor Geraint Jones explains the science of BepiColombo's TWO orbiters; ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter.
👀 Dr Valentina Galuzzi explains how the instrument SIMBIO-SYS, aka 'the eyes' of MPO, will give us a detailed view of Mercury's weird surface.
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