The probe, equipped with Swiss instruments, has completed the last milestone before entering Mercury's orbit. The European-Japanese space probe has thus come closer to Mercury than ever before, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on X on Wednesday. At 06:58 Swiss time, it was only 295 kilometers away from the surface of the planet. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The flyby was intended to give the probe the necessary gravitational boost to enter an orbit around the innermost planet in our solar system in 2026. Читать дальше...