Why it’s so hard to get to Mercury (ft. Scott Manley!)

AD | Go to https://snhu.edu/drbecky to explore over 200 degree programs and find your path forward. | It takes longer to get to Mercury, than it does to get out to Jupiter. The Juno mission took 5 years to cruise to Jupiter, whereas the Bepi Colombo mission has only just made it to Mercury after 8 LONG years in space. But why has it taken so long to get there? Mercury is practically in our back garden of the solar system, but Bepi Colombo’s complicated 8 year journey has seen it make a fly-b