BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...
The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are ... the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface, more ...
Earlier this week, the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury for the fifth time, as the agency plans for the spacecraft’s arrival in the planet’s orbit in November 2026.