Fig. 1.

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The first two Mercury flyby trajectories of BepiColombo seen from three different angles, in the MeSO frame (Mercury Sun Orbit), are shown along a model of the magnetopause (cyan) and bow shock (yellow), (model from Slavin et al. 2009). The spacecraft position is at 22:40 UTC on 1 October 2021 for MSB1 (top panels) and at 07:30 UTC on 23 June 2022 for MSB2 (bottom panels).
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