¿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 May 4 IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/zWFuCO7jyBk?rel=0 Earth Flyby of BepiColombo Image Credit & [3]License: [4]ESA, [5]BepiColombo, [6]MTM Explanation: What it would look like to approach planet Earth? Such an event was recorded visually in great detail by [7]ESA's and [8]JAXA's robotic [9]BepiColombo spacecraft last month as it swung back past Earth on its journey in to the planet [10]Mercury. [11]Earth can be seen rotating on approach as it comes out from behind the spacecraft's high-gain antenna in [12]this nearly 10-hour time-lapse video. The Earth is so bright that [13]no background stars are visible. [14]Launched in 2018, the robotic [15]BepiColombo used the [16]gravity of Earth to adjust its course, the first of nine planetary flybys over the next seven years -- but the only one [17]involving Earth. Scheduled to enter orbit in 2025, BepiColombo will take images and data of the [18]surface and magnetic field of [19]Mercury in an effort to [20]better understand the [21]early evolution of our Solar System and its innermost planet. New: APOD now available through [22]Instagram in Portuguese Tomorrow's picture: carina perspective __________________________________________________________________ [23]< | [24]Archive | [25]Submissions | [26]Index | [27]Search | [28]Calendar | [29]RSS | [30]Education | [31]About APOD | [32]Discuss | [33]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [34]Robert Nemiroff ([35]MTU) & [36]Jerry Bonnell ([37]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [38]Specific rights apply. [39]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [40]ASD at [41]NASA / [42]GSFC & [43]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/zWFuCO7jyBk?rel=0 3. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/ 4. https://www.esa.int/ 5. https://sci.esa.int/web/bepicolombo 6. https://sci.esa.int/web/bepicolombo/-/49513-mercury-transfer-module 7. https://www.esa.int/ 8. https://global.jaxa.jp/ 9. https://sci.esa.int/web/bepicolombo 10. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/ 11. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/in-depth/ 12. http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_Earth_flyby_in_images 13. https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/why-are-there-no-stars.html 14. https://youtu.be/6t4vtR7t9D8?t=84 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130805.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170723.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171211.html 20. https://i.imgflip.com/uop2m.jpg 21. https://mobile.arc.nasa.gov/public/iexplore/missions/pages/yss/november.html 22. https://www.instagram.com/apodbrasil.oficial/ 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200503.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 27. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 32. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200504 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200505.html 34. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 35. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 36. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 37. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 38. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 39. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 40. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 41. https://www.nasa.gov/ 42. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 43. http://www.mtu.edu/