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Spacecraft captures high-def images of Mercury

In Photos: See Mercury’s Craters In Rare Close-Ups After Final 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.

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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,

Mysterious Mercury Stars In Majestic New BepiColombo Spacecraft Images

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic plains star in the best views from the flyby.

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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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Planet Mercury Poses for Cameras as Star Trek-Like Spaceship Comes Close to It

Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...

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Have All The Planets Ever Aligned? The Closest We'll Get Is May 6, 2492

This month, if you should incline your head slightly upwards at night, you will receive a treat in the form of six of the ...

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