The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...

Close-up photos of Mercury’s north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) Cameras also captured views of neighbouring volcanic plains and ...

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The photos illuminate a dark planet scientists ... ESA picked out the top three images from the flyby, which saw BepiColombo soaring over Mercury’s north pole. “Close-up images expose possibly ...

"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." The ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.

The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its sixth and final flyby of the closest planet to the sun, Mercury, capturing some incredible images of the tiny world. The photos offer tantalizing hints about ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of ... [+] the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new photos of Mercury's alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked plains. On January 8, the spacecraft passed the tiny planet for the ...

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, Kandinsky, Tolkien and Gordimer ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of ... This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018 ...