New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a ... during the day, according to NASA. But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury, dark equals cold.

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on ... BepiColombo follows in the footsteps of NASA's Mariner 10, which photographed Mercury in 1974-75, and NASA’s MESSENGER, which mapped ...

(AP) - A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury ... mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades ...

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, made its closest approach on January 8, 2025. Flying 295 km above Mercury, ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras ... Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the ...