Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's north pole and beams back stunning photos
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. The European Space Agency released the stunning snapshots Thursday, showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of of our solar system’s smallest, innermost planet.
The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...
Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...
Being the planet closest to the Sun, Mercury is the one most under our star’s spell, including having a closely aligned axis of rotation. Like the Sun, its north pole points towards Draco ...
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