Mercury is the planet that's usually closest to Earth. But why don't we go there? What's so Difficult about going to Mercury? It turns out, we have only TWO spaceships ever gone to Mercury. Seems like it's a hard place to reach. Let's find out, what makes this planet so difficult to get to and why we don't send ships to Mercury more often. Here're cool and fascinating space facts coming your way! Credit: NASA CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ By SkywalkerPL: BepiColombo MPO, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45633626 BepiColombo MMO, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45633716 CC BY-SA 3.0 igo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en: BepiColombo MPO: By ESA-Anneke Le Floc'h – https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2013/02/BepiColombo_MPO_being_placed_in_Phenix_thermal_vacuum_test_facility, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73730834 MPO’s science instruments: By ESA/ATG medialab – https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/07/MPO_s_science_instruments, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91003733 By ESA–C. Carreau: Mercury Transfer Module, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/12/Mercury_Transfer_Module_in_space_simulator, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64664925 BepiColombo spacecraft stack, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/07/BepiColombo_spacecraft_stack, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60810342 BepiColombo acoustic test, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/06/BepiColombo_acoustic_test, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60101296 BepiColombo acoustic test (2), http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/07/BepiColombo_acoustic_test, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60679988 BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/06/Mercury_Transfer_Module_solar_wing_deployment, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60101285 BepiColombo stack cropped, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/04/BepiColombo_stack2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60728063 By ESA/BepiColombo/MTM: BepiColombo Earth Flyby, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/04/BepiColombo_s_last_close-ups_of_Earth_during_flyby, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89057846 Flying by Venus, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108393536 BepiColombo closing in on Earth ahead, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89031050 BepiColombo Earth Flyby, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89057846 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/: Solar system orrery inner planets: By Datumizer, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72750614 By Phoenix7777: Animation of MESSENGER's trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70686151 Animation of Cassini trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70455328 Animation of Voyager 2's trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70661448 Animation of BepiColombo's trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73603323 Animation is created by Bright Side.
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