This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...

spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. BepiColombo’s third flyby image showcases the Nathair Facula near Mercury’s upper edge, the site of the ...

of the planet's surface. BepiColombo also passed right over Mercury's north pole. The spacecraft sent back a series of stark images, including photos of the perpetually shadowed Prokofiev ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury ... the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission ...

has now released three of the most captivating images from BepiColombo’s most recent flyby on 8 January, taken from around 300 kilometres above Mercury’s surface as it flew over the planet’s ...

image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing planet’s Nathair Facula & Fonteyn crater taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo (European Space ...

These photos include some of the planet's largest craters ... activity will be among the main tasks of BepiColombo when it returns to Mercury. That won't happen until the very end of 2026 ...

(AP) - A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury ... (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the planet's north pole.

But, in fact, it’s actually really difficult to reach the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission has almost reached ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...