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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to send a spacecraft to Mercury. This latest round of photos comes via the ...

The photos illuminate a dark planet scientists ... The spacecraft was a mere 183 miles above Mercury’s surface, giving it a good look at the pockmarked surface. BepiColombo's cameras captured ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly ... After flying through the planet's shadow, BepiColombo got the first close views of Mercury's surface.

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.