The flyby images, all black-and-white 1024x1024 ... BepiColombo follows in the footsteps of NASA's Mariner 10, which photographed Mercury in 1974-75, and NASA’s MESSENGER, which mapped it ...

This was the spacecraft’s sixth Mercury flyby, part of a series of “gravity ... but it remains an enigmatic planet. NASA’s Mariner 10 and Messenger spacecraft both checked out Mercury.

Cameras also captured views of neighboring volcanic plains and Mercury's largest impact crater, which spans more than 930 miles (1,500 kilometers). This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury ...

Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury’s surface is cratered ... Bonus: there are some incredible images of the planet from this flyby, from the closest vantage point any spacecraft has had around ...

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8 ...