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In pictures: Mercury spacecraft captures stunning new images of one of the least explored planets
A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of ... mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades ...
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope releases its first images on mission to map millions of galaxies
SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...
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Spectra of Mercury (IMAGE)
Though Mercury may look drab to the human eye, different minerals appear in a rainbow of colors in this image from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. This visual may only be used in conjunction of ...
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Mercury's Tail (IMAGE)
This is an image of Mercury's tail obtained from combining a full day of data from a camera aboard the STEREO-A spacecraft. The reflected sunlight off the planet's surface results in a type of ...