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It takes more energy to slow a spacecraft into orbit around Mercury than it does to fly directly to Pluto, because the Sun's gravity accelerates anything falling toward the inner solar system — a counterintuitive physics problem that forced BepiColombo to loop aro

Mercury is close to Earth, but stopping there means shedding the speed gained while falling towards...

SCIENCE August 07, 2026

It takes more energy to slow a spacecraft into orbit around Mercury than it does to fly directly to Pluto, because the Sun's gravity accelerates anything falling toward the inner solar system — a counterintuitive physics problem that forced BepiColombo to loop aro

Mercury is close to Earth, but stopping there means shedding the speed gained while falling towards the Sun. BepiColombo spent eight years solving that...

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Mercury is close to Earth, but stopping there means shedding the speed gained while falling towards the Sun. BepiColombo spent eight years solving that...

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