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