Why the Closest Planet Is the Hardest to Visit

Mercury is the planet that's usually closest to Earth. But why don't we go there? What's so Difficult about going to Mercury? It turns out, we have only TWO spaceships ever gone to Mercury. Seems like it's a hard place to reach. Let's find out, what makes this planet so difficult to get to and why we don't send ships to Mercury more often. Here're cool and fascinating space facts coming your way!

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BepiColombo MPO, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45633626
BepiColombo MMO, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45633716
CC BY-SA 3.0 igo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en:
BepiColombo MPO: By ESA-Anneke Le Floc'h - https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2013/02/BepiColombo_MPO_being_placed_in_Phenix_thermal_vacuum_test_facility, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73730834
MPO’s science instruments: By ESA/ATG medialab - https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/07/MPO_s_science_instruments, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91003733
By ESA–C. Carreau:
Mercury Transfer Module, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/12/Mercury_Transfer_Module_in_space_simulator, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64664925
BepiColombo spacecraft stack, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/07/BepiColombo_spacecraft_stack, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60810342
BepiColombo acoustic test, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/06/BepiColombo_acoustic_test, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60101296
BepiColombo acoustic test (2), http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/07/BepiColombo_acoustic_test, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60679988
BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/06/Mercury_Transfer_Module_solar_wing_deployment, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60101285
BepiColombo stack cropped, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/04/BepiColombo_stack2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60728063
By ESA/BepiColombo/MTM:
BepiColombo Earth Flyby, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/04/BepiColombo_s_last_close-ups_of_Earth_during_flyby, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89057846
Flying by Venus, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108393536
BepiColombo closing in on Earth ahead, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89031050
BepiColombo Earth Flyby, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89057846
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Solar system orrery inner planets: By Datumizer, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72750614
By Phoenix7777:
Animation of MESSENGER's trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70686151
Animation of Cassini trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70455328
Animation of Voyager 2's trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70661448
Animation of BepiColombo's trajectory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73603323
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