A spacecraft has captured detailed images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious side of the planet.
The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...
"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." ...
The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to ...
A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...
The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...
The probe also captured the 1,500-km-wide Caloris basin, one of the largest impact structures in the Solar System. The images ...