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A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...

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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.

image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing planet’s Nathair Facula & Fonteyn crater taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo (European Space ...

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