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Spacecraft beams back riveting photos

The Associated Press on MSN · 2d

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.

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Spacecraft beams back riveting photos after buzzing Mercury’s north pole

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury before passing directly over the planet's north pole.

Space.com · 3d

Mercury looks stunning in images from BepiColombo spacecraft's 6th and final flyby

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet."

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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 ...

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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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See: Incredible New Photos Of Mercury

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new closeup images of Mercury's alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked plains.

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New images of Mercury captured by UK spacecraft

Stevenage-built BepiColombo makes final flyby of Mercury ahead of entering the plant's orbit in 2026.

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Mercury may have frozen water in craters, spacecraft flyby reveals

Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to ...

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