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Insane New Images of Mercury's Surface Captured on Probe's Final FlybyIn 2026, the Bepicolombo Mercury Transfer Module will return to Mercury once again to release the ESA's Mercury Planetary ...
This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring ...
Barely larger than our own Moon, Mercury orbits precariously close to the Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million ...
"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." ...
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Spacecraft makes final flyby of smallest planet in solar systemThe European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The BepiColombo spacecraft was expected to fly less than 200 miles above the ...
The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.
On January 8, 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its sixth flyby of Mercury, flying just 295 km above the ...
On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...
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