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.

The mission launched in October 2018 as a joint venture between the European Space Agency ... to explore Mercury. During its latest flyby, the twin spacecraft flew above the surface of Mercury ...

Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees ... a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The BepiColombo spacecraft will start ...

Stunning detailed images of Mercury have been clicked by BepiColombo ... and the vast sunlit northern plains", according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The images were revealed during a ...

From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer probe has captured stunning close-up ... the BepiColombo team will work hard to unravel as many of Mercury's mysteries with ...

"Our study uses geophysical data collected by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft." MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, ...

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 space and away ...

pockmarked surface yesterday. This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring cameras snapped detailed black-and-white ...

On January 8, the robotic explorer operated by the European Space Agency ... 183 miles above Mercury. The newly released images show permanently dark craters spotting the surface of the planet ...

The European Space Agency has released images the BepiColombo mission collected during its recent flight past Mercury when it skirted only 295 km (183 mi.) above the planet's surface. The above ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan ... above the planet’s surface, then shortly after over its north pole.

The probe, equipped with Swiss instruments, has completed the last milestone before entering Mercury's orbit. The European-Japanese space probe ... away from the surface of the planet.