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BepiColombo's planetary orbiter

author: ESA/C.Carreau/Novapix

reference: e-son25-03001

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 13 cm

This artist's impression shows ESA's BepiColombo's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) that, together with a second spacecraft, the Japanese Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), makes the BepiColombo mission at Mercury. The MPO will study the planet itself and, among several investigations, it will make a complete map of Mercury at different wavelengths. It will also map the planet's mineralogy and elemental composition and determine whether the interior of the planet is molten or not.

Keywords for this photo:

BEPICOLOMBO - ILLUSTRATION - MERCURY - MERCURY PLANET ORBITER - MPO - PLANET - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -