From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer probe has captured stunning close-up images while on its final flyby of the tiny, sunbaked world. The photos represent a ...

From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer probe has captured stunning close-up images while on its final flyby of the tiny, sunbaked world.

Lava and debris brighten up Mercury’s surface in this image by BepiColombo ... The two BepiColombo probes, consisting of ESA’s Mercury Planet Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetosphere ...

The probe, equipped with Swiss instruments ... (Bepicolombo Laser Altimeter), which will create a 3D image of Mercury’s surface.

The image below shows a view of Mercury's surface as BepiColombo crossed the "terminator line," the dividing line between the planet's night side and day side. Breaking space news, the latest ...

One of the images captured by BepiColombo during its sixth flyby. Stunning detailed images of Mercury have been clicked by BepiColombo as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

At 06:58 Swiss time, it was only 295 kilometers away from the surface of the planet ... was the long time the solar-powered probe spent in the shadow of Mercury. For more than 23 minutes ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of ... [+] the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing northern plains taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo.(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury’s surface is cratered and barren, lacking any atmosphere but possessing a huge metal core. MESSENGER revealed dormant volcanoes, water ice hiding in shadowed ...

The newly released images show permanently dark craters spotting the surface of the planet closest to our Sun. Nearby volcanic plains and the largest impact cater on Mercury–over 930 miles wide ...