JAXA and ESA are currently operating a joint mission called BepiColombo that flew by Venus on August 10, 2001. The images were shared by the mission controllers showing a black and white foreground of Venus as the Spaceship had left beyond the planet that driving the driving. A serious assistance maneuver. That says the image broke at 13:57:56 UTC by the Monitoring Chamber of the Mercury Transfer Module of the Spaceship 3.
The distance from Bepicolombo from the surface of Venus when the image was taken was 1573 kilometers. The spacecraft made its closest approach of 552 kilometers from the planet’s surface at 13:51:54 UTC. Bepicolombo was not designed to study Venus, but did not spend the opportunity to break the close-up photographs on his steering wheel.
Your transfer module monitoring camera 3 captures the black and white photographs in the low resolution 1024 by 1024. Mission controllers Note The image was processed slightly to improve the contrast and use the complete dynamic range. A slight optical vignette is observed in the lower left corner of the complete image below and appears as a shadow in the corner.
While most of the image is composed of a bright white Venus and Jet Black of space, we can also see parts of the BepiColombo spacecraft in the snapshot. Near the center at the top of the image is the round dish of the high-gain antenna for the Mercury planetary orbiter. A part of the body of the spacecraft is visible at the top left.
The Flyby When the image was taken is the last, the spacecraft will make around Venus before it is directed to its main mercury destination. The Flyby was the second led around Venus and the third of nine Flybys in general. Flybys help direct the spacecraft, putting it ongoing for its final mercury destination. Until now, Bepicolombo has held a Flyby de la Earth, two from Venus, and will make six mercury flybys.
