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BepiColombo spacecraft passes Venus
October 25 , 2020
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- BepiColombo spacecraft which is heading to Mercury passed Venus recently.
- The European-Japanese probe managed to capture a black-and-white snapshot of Venus from a distance of 17,000 kilometres.
- It was launched in October 2018 and it is on a seven-year trip to Mercury.
- It is expected to reach Mercury by 2025.
- Once it reaches Mercury, it will split in two.
- This will lead to the release of a European orbiter 'Bepi'.
- The orbiter will enter Mercury's inner orbit
- While the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's 'Mio' will continue to gather data from a distance.
- NASA's Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to fly-past Mercury in the mid-1970s.
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