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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heading outbound, it continued shuttering images until April ... California. Mercury’s southern hemisphere as seen during Mariner 10 flybys. Credit: NASA. Six months later, on March 16, 1975 ...

The image was taken at 23:41:12 UTC by ... His calculations also helped NASA use gravity-assist flybys of Venus and Mercury for its Mariner 10 probe, which the BepiColumbo spacecraft is using ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft came within 183 miles (295 kilometers) of Mercury’s surface during its sixth and final flyby ... a crucial role in NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the ...

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 ...

This image provided by European Space Agency ... a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian ...

The BepiColombo mission, which launched in 2018, completed its final flyby, setting it on ... who contributed to Nasa's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to ...

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 ...