Mercury's north pole seen in dazzling new images as ... - CBS News
Jan 10, 2025 · The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the planet's north pole.
See Mercury's frigid north pole in extraordinary new images from …
Jan 13, 2025 · A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole.
New, Stunning Images of Mercury's North Pole Will Help …
Jan 13, 2025 · The BepiColombo spacecraft—a joint endeavor between the European and Japanese space agencies—has just snapped stunning photographs of Mercury’s north pole during its recent flyby of the innermost...
Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back ... - ABC News
Jan 9, 2025 · -- A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 …
Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back …
Jan 10, 2025 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles...
Spacecraft Buzzes Mercury's North Pole and Beams Back …
Jan 9, 2025 · A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole
Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and ... - Associated Press News
Jan 9, 2025 · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. 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.
European spacecraft beams back new photos of Mercury
Jan 10, 2025 · A European and Japanese spacecraft has captured some of the clearest images yet of Mercury’s north pole, including its permanently shadowed craters and vast volcanic plains.
Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby
On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury for the sixth time, successfully completing the final ‘gravity assist manoeuvre’ needed to steer it into orbit around the planet in late 2026. The spacecraft flew just a few hundred kilometres above the planet's north pole. Close-up images expose possibly icy craters whose floors are …
Mercury's shadowy north pole revealed by M-CAM 1 (with labels)
Jan 9, 2025 · Flying over Mercury's north pole gave the spacecraft's monitoring camera 1 (M-CAM 1) a unique opportunity to peer down into the shadowy polar craters. M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury's north pole at 07:07 CET, when the spacecraft was about 787 km from the planet’s surface.