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In pictures: Mercury spacecraft captures stunning new images of one of the least explored planets
A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only ...
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Scientists explain why BepiColombo’s mission to Mercury is so tricky
It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...
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The physicist on a mission to understand Mercury's epic solar storms
Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...
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See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft
A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...
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New, Stunning Images of Mercury’s North Pole Will Help Scientists Study the Planet’s Mysterious Permanent Shadows
The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...
See the amazing images of Mercury captured by the BepiColombo mission
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made its ...