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New, Stunning Images of Mercury’s North Pole Will Help Scientists Study the Planet’s Mysterious Permanent ShadowsThe BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...
Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...
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New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...
Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...
A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of the closest planet to the sun on Jan. 8. It flew just a few hundred ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.
Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock that always seems to be in retrograde ruining your life. A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and Japan made its final fly-by over the planet ...
The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the planet's north pole. The European Space Agency ...
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