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After an 8-year journey, ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft has finally reached Mercury. Despite a 2024 glitch that delayed arrival by six months, the twin orbiters will now study Mercury's geology, magnetic field, and exosphere, and even test Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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