![]() The latest flyby, which took place on Monday (June 19) was already BepiColombo's third at Mercury. The probe, which currently orbits the sun, is constantly accelerated by the star's gravitational pull and needs to brake in order to slow down enough to be captured by the tiny Mercury in December 2028. The image was taken about seven hours before the closest approach on Monday (June 19) at a distance of about 75,000 miles (121,000 kilometers) from Mercury.īepiColombo, which launched in 2018, is following a long and winding trajectory through the inner solar system designed to help the spacecraft shed kinetic energy with the help of planets Earth, Venus and Mercury. – Tereza Pultarova Return to Mercuryįriday, June 15, 2023: The European-Japanese BepiColombo probe took this image of its target planet Mercury as it approached it during a gravity-assist maneuver designed to reduce the spacecraft's speed. From tomorrow on, days will begin to shorten in the north again, while the south will begin to move toward lighter and warmer days. The summer solstice marks the day when the Northern Hemisphere is the most tilted toward the sun, resulting in the longest day and warmest weather. As a result, the Southern and Northern Hemispheres receive varying amounts of sunlight each day of the year. The changing length of the day and night on our planet is a result of Earth's tilt toward the plane in which it orbits the sun. This image shows our planet split by the terminator line that divides the dayside from the nightside of Earth, and was taken by the European weather forecasting satellite Meteosat-11 from its perch in the geostationary orbit, an orbit at the altitude of 22,200 miles (36,000 kilometers), where spacecraft appear suspended above a fixed spot on Earth's equator. Wednesday, June 21, 2023: The Northern Hemisphere has woken up into the longest day of the year as our planet reached the moment of the summer solstice today, June 21, at 10:57 a.m. – Tereza Pultarova Summer solstice from space ![]() The first tropical storm of this season sprung up above the Atlantic Ocean already on June 3 but weakened within a few days. ![]() National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expects this year's hurricane season, which began on June 1, to be "near normal" with 12 to 17 named storms, five to nine hurricanes and one to four major hurricanes stronger than category 3. The North Atlantic ocean is currently experiencing a spell of unusually high water temperatures, which might fuel further storm activity. The depression, which has formed in the early hours of Thursday, might strengthen later this week and become tropical storm Cindy, the third named tropical storm of the 2023 hurricane season. On Bret's heels follows tropical depression Four. Weather forecasters expect Bret to skirt Haiti and Cuba and begin to disintegrate above the Gulf of Mexico before reaching the strength of a hurricane. Lucia, Dominica and Martinique to prepare for strong winds and heavy rain later on Thursday (June 22). ![]() Weather forecasters have issued warnings for residents in St. The video shows Bret, which currently packs maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (113 km/h), approaching islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea. ![]()
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