Listen to Earth with your BepiColombo probe heading for Mercury
On April 10, a BepiColombo spacecraft flew to Earth near Mercury. Moving at a speed of over 3 km / s, the probe recorded peculiar sounds in the Earth’s environment. BepiColombo launched from Earth towards Mercury on October 20, 2018. However, to reach the first planet of the Solar System, the probe must use gravitational assistance from Earth, Venus and Mercury itself nine times during its journey. The entire trip to Mercury will take just over 7 years. After reaching the place, the probe will help us to get to know Mercury better. The probe itself consists of two orbiters: Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), which will be responsible for creating very accurate maps of the planet’s surface, and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), which – as the name suggests – will study the planet’s magnetosphere. According to information published by the European Space Agency, flying near Earth on April 10, the European-Japanese BepiColombo probe recorded five peculiar recordings of the Earth’s mag...