of the planet's surface. BepiColombo also passed right over Mercury's north pole. The spacecraft sent back a series of stark images, including photos of the perpetually shadowed Prokofiev ...

the pictures of Mercury captured by BepiColumbo can tell scientists a great deal about the imaged regions of the solar system's smallest planet. The image below shows a view of Mercury's surface ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe.

The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft recently made a close flyby of Mercury ... are right where we wanted to be at this moment. But it also gave us the chance to take photos ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snaps rare close-up images of Mercury during a planned gravity ... with the planet in the top right. They display vast craters and volcanic fields.

The spacecraft was at a distance of around 146 miles (236 kilometers) above the surface of Mercury at its closest, allowing it to capture intimate images of ... stacked on top of one another ...

On the flyby, the spacecraft passed within just 180 miles of Mercury’s surface, enabling it to capture close-up images of the planet. It passed the planet’s night side, which faces out into ...

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

Thursday’s flyby was the fourth of six planned around Mercury, with BepiColombo grazing the planet just 103 miles above its surface. The images it sends back from these close encounters ...