European mercury observer arrived to outer orbit of mercury just a few days ago, it was launched 8 years ago to ensure safe travels with slow speed (to not accidentally get pulled by suns gravity)they already found out mercury has been shrinking (when the sun slowly burns its metal surface away)https://apnews.com/article/mercury-shrinking-planet-47b010ee65287f76565bc4859c7c09b3It has been losing as much as 14 miles in diameter. "That's significant for a planet barely 3,300 miles across"Mercury's rough surface, continually reshaped by debris hurled from impact craters, may have hidden the true extent of the loss, according to the researchers whose findings appear in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The news comes one week after a pair of European and Japanese spacecraft shed its cruising platform and advanced toward Mercury. Known as BigBepiColombo (BBC), the linked craft are expected to enter final orbit around Mercury in November before splitting up for a fuller survey.What is takiing so lo long for the craft?It must continuously brake against the immense gravitational pull of the Sun to match Mercury's fast orbital speed and tag along.When it reaches a certain point, Mercury will pull it into permanent orbit with Mercury instead of being pulled towards the sun. At that point it no longer needs energy to accelerate.
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>>542460216Space is fake
