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Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back stunning photos
The European Space Agency released stunning snapshots showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our solar system ...
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Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back stunning photos
This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018. The maneuver put the spacecraft on course to enter orbit around Mercury late next year.
In pictures: Mercury spacecraft captures stunning new images of one of the least explored planets
The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...
Scientists explain why BepiColombo’s mission to Mercury is so tricky
Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...
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From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025
NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...