Views of Earth from BepiColombo’s flyby

A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first – and only – flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed to adjust its trajectory en route to its destination, Mercury. The spacecraft, equipped with three ’selfie’ cameras, captured a series of stunning images of our home planet as it closed in, approached, and finally departed. In this video, Earth first appears as a rotating marble from behind the spacecraft structure and high-gain ante