Cartoon BepiColombo's second Mercury flyby

BepiColombo cartoon characters Bepi, Mio and MTM make their second of six flybys at Mercury.

The microphone and headphones represent the 'sounds' that the spacecraft record during a planetary flyby. In reality, magnetic and accelerometer data are converted ('sonified') into sounds that are audible to the human ear. This may include an impression of the solar wind, or the flexing of the spacecraft as it responds to the change in temperature as it flew from the night to dayside of the planet, and to the immense gravitational pull of the planet.

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