New images of Mercury captured by UK spacecraft
A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...
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The space physicist on a mission to discover why Mercury has shrunk
Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...
Stunning new images of Mercury show the scorched planet's north pole
New images of Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the ...
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Mercury may have frozen water in craters, spacecraft flyby reveals
The sixth BepiColombo mission — launched by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — was able to examine a series of deep craters near Mercury’s north pole.
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From Moon to Mercury: Key space missions planned for 2025
With the Artemis program, NASA aims to lay ... notes that BepiColombo aims to study Mercury's composition, atmosphere, and surface geology. Several space agencies plan to perform deep-space ...
On this date: NASA selects contractor to build Mercury capsule
On Jan. 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry ...
On this date: NASA selects developer of Mercury spacecraft
On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” ...