The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new photos of Mercury's alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked plains. On January 8, the spacecraft passed the tiny planet for the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

During its latest flyby, the twin spacecraft flew above the surface of Mercury at a distance of around 180 miles (295 kilometers), according to ESA. From this close distance, BepiColombo captured ...

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 ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published ... BepiColombo got the first close views of Mercury's surface. Flying over the boundary between day and night - known as the "terminator ...

European Space Agency A spacecraft beamed back close-up photos of Mercury as it flew less than 200 miles above the planet's pockmarked surface. The European Space Agency on Thursday released the ...