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Spacecraft captures high-def images of Mercury

In Photos: See Mercury’s Craters In Spectacular Close-Ups After Flyby

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

Spacecraft captures high-def images of Mercury during very close flyby

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high-def photos.

Spacecraft Captures Spectacularly Detailed Images of Mercury’s Hidden Surface

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of entering its orbit.

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NASA Mission Captures Incredible Close-Ups of Mercury

Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that BepiColombo has completed its final gravity assist maneuver around the planet,

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New, Stunning Images of Mercury's North Pole Will Help Scientists Study the Planet's Mysterious Permanent Shadows

The BepiColombo spacecraft—a joint endeavor between the European and Japanese space agencies—has just snapped stunning ...

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In pictures: Mercury spacecraft captures stunning new images of one of the least explored planets

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

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The physicist on a mission to understand Mercury's epic solar storms

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...

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Scientists explain why BepiColombo’s mission to Mercury is so tricky

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

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See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from the BepiColombo spacecraft

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

All Of The Planets That Will Retrograde In 2025 — And How Each One Will Affect You

Retrograde planets are infamous for bringing difficult energy, but these phases are essential to our self-improvement.

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Stunning Close-Up Images Reveal Mercury’s Icy Craters and Volcanic Plains

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

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Stunning new images of Mercury show the scorched planet's north pole

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...

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Mercury stuns in incredibly detailed new images

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...

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BepiColombo's latest Mercury flyby unveils icy secrets

This is already the sixth mission of the BepiColombo probe in Mercury's orbit. This time, it approached the most minor planet ...

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