In space, no-one can hear you sneeze.
While we’ve been pre-occupied with medical matters other science continues. The BepiColombo probe swung by us in a gravity assist manoeuvre on its way to Mercury, capturing some cool views on the way:
I love views from space…
Earth rotates as BepiColombo flies by
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Apr 12, 2020As the ESA’s BepiColombo probe flew past Earth on its gravity assist slingshot to Mercury it took some photographs. I lined up the Earth part and size adjusted them to make this view of Earth rotating in space.
Original imagery and more information here sci.esa.int/web/bepicolombo/-…
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← This sequence is cropped (and looped) from the last 10 frames of the video captured on Sol 6 by a camera on the lander for NASA’s Mars Pathfinder rover. Not enough pixels, but still, mighty impressive. This evidence was discovered -way- back in the day by 
