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📽️Sit down, relax and enjoy #BepiColombo’s views as it moved gracefully around Mercury on 7-8 January 2025. 🎼🎶Playing in the background is The Hebrides overture by Felix Mendelssohn - can you guess why?

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BepiColombo1 year ago

ℹ️More info and credits:

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Holly Dayle2 years ago

This song lit up the livestream!😍🎶✨ Couldn’t help but fall in love with it all over again🥰 What did you think? Drop your thoughts below! 👇 #LivestreamHighlights #NewMusic2024 #singing #Livestream #music #Disney #lovesongs #ClassicalMusic

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KV-2 | 🇵🇱1 year ago

Mendelssohn's Crater? I'd imagine that's why.

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BepiColombo1 year ago

Correct! 😁 Fun fact: to write this piece, Mendelssohn was inspired by Fingal's Cave (Scotland), created by ancient lava flows. The Mendelssohn crater, visible from 00:28 in the video, was actually flooded by lava a long time ago

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Shekibe Ameti1 year ago

@esa @esa ich brauche eine Erklärung!! Warum? 👋👽 Ich will nicht in euren Dimension mich einmischen, aber ihr könnt mir antworten. Bitte.

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yasmyn1 year ago

Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides'? Because Mercury is a lonely, volcanic rock orbiting a star, much like a Hebridean isle? Or maybe because the data transmission from the probe sounds like a slightly off-key harpsichord? My guess is the mission control team has a better sense of...

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fathy tony1 year ago

Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture? Because the desolate beauty of Mercury mirrors the melancholic grandeur of the piece? Or perhaps because the unpredictable nature of space exploration echoes the unpredictable shifts in musical dynamics? The answer, like most things, is...

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