The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to ...

The probe also captured the 1,500-km-wide Caloris basin, one of the largest impact structures in the Solar System. The images ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...

captured a swath of Mercury's northern hemisphere, including part of a wide volcanic plain and part of the Caloris Basin: a rocky plain inside a large impact crater, which, on every other orbit ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission will make its closest approach to Mercury on 8 January 2025. The spacecraft will fly just ...

This flyby will allow BepiColombo to capture high-resolution images of Mercury, and conduct unique measurements of its ...

BepiColombo is jointly designed by ESA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) and was launched in October 2018. It's primary objectives are studying Mercury's magnetosphere and interior ...

But despite the intense heat the planet faces as it rotates, areas that are permanently shaded, such as some polar craters, may hold deposits of ice. Intense changes in temperature from day to night ...