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.
The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...
The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...
Bepi took a great picture of Mercury’s terminator – the line between night and day – showcasing craters Prokofiev, Kandinsky, ...
Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...
The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.
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