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BepiColombo skims past Venus Europe and Japan's BepiColombo spacecraft captured this view of Venus on August 10, 2021 from a distance of about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist on its way to Mercury. ESA/BepiColombo/MTM