It is in several glass containers, including numerous glass mercury switches. A large spill is considered anything greater than a broken thermometer. She said that the individual had not yet sold ...

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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.

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...

Some of the images acquired of Mercury by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on January 8, 2025. The images were captured by the onboard monitoring cameras. Credit: ESA ...

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

Over the last 24 hours or so, the major organizations that keep track of global temperatures have released figures for 2024, and all of them agree: 2024 was the warmest year yet recorded, joining ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing northern plains snapped by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo (European Space Agency via AP ...