By SHIORI OGAWA/ Staff Writer
April 30, 2020 at 07:00 JST
Mercury probe Mio is seen making a swing by near Earth in an image taken with an exposure time of 30 seconds with a telescope in the United States remotely controlled by Takeshi Inoue, director of the Akashi Municipal Planetarium in Hyogo Prefecture. (Provided by Takeshi Inoue)
Japan's Mio space probe now en route to Mercury to study its origin and evolution took advantage of Earth's gravity for a swing by to take a farewell photo of home. [Read More]
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