The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...
Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...
The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.
The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.