Mercury’s magnetic landscape mapped in 30 minutes

Mercury’s magnetosphere during BepiColombo’s third flyby (unannotated)

As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet’s magnetic field. These measurements provide a tantalising taste of the mysteries that the mission is set to investigate when it arrives in orbit around the Solar System’s innermost planet.

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