
Mercury mission flies by closest planet to the sun for the first time
CNN
The BepiColombo space mission made its first flyby of Mercury around 7:34 p.m. ET on Friday and passed within 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the planet's surface. BepiColombo will collect science data and images and send them back to Earth.
The smallest planet in our solar system was getting photographed Friday by a European-Japanese space probe making its closest trip past the sphere on its seven-year mission.
The BepiColombo mission made its first flyby of Mercury around 7:34 p.m. ET on Friday, passing within 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the planet's surface.

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