How do you wait for news of something that’s already happened? On 3 September 2026, our team in Darmstadt, Germany found out. They sat in silence, eyes on the screens, while the answer made its way back to Earth from millions of kilometres away. This is the latest chapter of BepiColombo, the mission to Mercury we share with @jaxajp. 📹 @europeanspaceagency 🎞️ ESA/ATG medialab; ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, @creativecommons BY-SA 3.0 IGO, Acknowledgements: Emanuele Simioni (@mediainaf), Valentina Galluzzi (INAF), Jack Wright (@theopenuniversity), and David Rothery (Open University) for their involvement in image sequence planning; ESA