A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.

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A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...

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Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun ... and have systems in place to gain human feedback on the overall quality of the process. We however cannot guarantee the accuracy of every summary ...