This hand-out image obtained from the European Space Agency (ESA) on July 6, 2017 shows the ESA’s Mercury spacecraft, the BepiColombo Stack configuration standing in position at a test facility in Spijkenisse. European and Japanese scientists on July 6, 2017 proudly unveiled the BepiColombo spacecraft ahead of its seven-year journey to Mercury, to explore one of the Solar System’s most enigmatic planets. Set for launch in 2018, BepiColombo will be the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first mission to the closest rock to the Sun.