Thread by @planet4589

ESA's Solar Orbiter entered Venus' graviational sphere of influence at 0446 UTC Aug 8 and will fly past the planet at an altitude of 7994 km at 0442 UTC Aug 9. It will reenter solar orbit at 0441 UTC Aug 10 . The flyby will increase the orbit from 0.49 x 0.95 AU to 0.59 x 1.21 AU

Meanwhile the ESA-JAXA Bepi-Colombo probe enters the Venus grav sphere at 0338 UTC Aug 9 and departs 0010 UTC Aug 12. The 552 km flyby at 1351 UTC Aug 10 sets it on course for Mercury

Here are the trajectories of the probes compared to the Venus Hill Sphere

Previous one was view from Venus north, here's the same viewed from Venus eq plane

And here is a zoom in of the closest approach