Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back stunning photos
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 released the stunning snapshots Thursday, showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of of our solar system’s smallest, innermost planet.
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BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volcanic plainsThe BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...
It was seven years ago when a planetary mission called BepiColombo departed our world. A joint effort of the European Space ...
In its sixth and final flyby of the planet, the BepiColombo spacecraft captured extraordinary close-up images of icy ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...
The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...
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