BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury in stunning time-lapse

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured on June 19, 2023. It was the 3rd flyby of Mercury for the spacecraft. The music used in the video “was composed for the sequence by ILĀ, with the assistance of AI tools developed by the Machine Intelligence for Musical Audio (MIMA) group, University of Sheffield,“ according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credits: Image: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO; Music composed by ILĀ.