This maneuver brought the spacecraft to just 185 miles (295 ... ridges” caused by the cooling and contraction of Mercury’s interior. These features provide a unique glimpse into the planet ...

located a little above the spacecraft equipment that appears in the view. Smaller, new craters have marked the interior. Mercury’s largest impact crater, the Caloris basin, appears in the lower ...

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its sixth ... two possible mechanisms that carry material from Mercury's interior to its surface: volcanic activity and craters ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...