It showed close-up pictures of the sun's closest ... about our neighbors in the solar system. Mariner 10 would only have quick flybys past Venus and Mercury, to be sure. But there was a lot ...

When Mariner 10 flew past Mercury three times in 1974 and 1975, the probe imaged less than half the planet. In January, during MESSENGER’s first flyby, its cameras returned images of about 20 pe ...

This image is a map projection of an oblique view. At the time of Mariner 10’s first Mercury flyby, the planet’s prime meridian (line of zero-degree longitude) was about 10° on the night side ...

The Messenger spacecraft made a close flyby of the planet ... talks about the close-up images of areas of the Sun's nearest neighbor that were in shadow when Mariner 10 flew past Mercury more ...

During its flyby of Venus, Mariner 10 discovered evidence of ... resolved through telescopic observation at that point. This mosaic of Mercury photos taken by Mariner 10 is made of 18 pictures snapped ...

The second flyby was another NASA milestone ... proximity during its final approach, Mariner 10 was also able to gather some very detailed images of Mercury's bumpy surface.

This historic first orbital image of Mercury was taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft on March 29, 2011, 37 years to the day after Mariner 10's historic first flyby of the planet. Labels show ...

One week ago, the MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high-resolution image of Mercury by a spacecraft in over 30 years, since the three Mercury flybys of Mariner 10 in 1974 and ...

and the image on the left was taken during the third flyby on September 29, 2009. The two views of Mercury show much of the hemisphere not imaged by Mariner 10 with only small coverage gap in ...

Scientists on Thursday shared fresh pictures and data about Mercury, showing mysterious pits on the planet in unprecedented detail and shedding new light on its unusual magnetic field. The ...

Cameras also captured views of neighboring, sunlit volcanic plains and Mercury's largest impact crater, which spans over 1,500 km. This was the sixth and final flyby ... NASA's Mariner 10 mission ...

Navigating Mercury’s Gravity: A Critical Maneuver BepiColombo’s fourth flyby was a key moment in ... With only two previous missions—NASA’s Mariner 10 and Messenger—having visited ...