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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

More In space exploration ... will analyse Mercury's atmosphere, and a laser altimeter called 'Bela' (Bepicolombo Laser Altimeter), which will create a 3D image of Mercury's surface.

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 ...

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.