The image below shows a view of Mercury's surface as BepiColombo crossed the "terminator line," the dividing line between the planet's night side and day side. Breaking space news, the latest ...
BepiColombo, consisting of two conjoined spacecraft, flew past Mercury for the ... got its first close-up view of the boundary that separates the day and night side of Mercury.
The spacecraft's closest approach of 295 km took place on the planet's night side at 06:59 CET. In this view, Mercury's terminator, the boundary between day and night, divides the planet in two.
On the flyby, the spacecraft passed within just 180 miles of Mercury’s surface, enabling it to capture close-up images of the planet. It passed the planet’s night side, which faces out into ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft ... Mercury’s North Pole, its close-up images gave us an unprecedented perspective of the planet's surface. BepiColombo initially flew over Mercury's night side ...
The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole. The European Space ...
February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...
A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the ... Once on the brighter side, the darkly-shadowed sunken places, where experts saw signs of frozen water towards the frigid ...
The six flybys of Mercury are a prelude to the spacecraft entering a polar ... dividing line between the planet's night side and day side. This view allowed scientists to get a view directly ...
The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole. The European Space ...
The six flybys of Mercury are a prelude to the spacecraft entering a polar orbit of the ... the "terminator line," the dividing line between the planet's night side and day side. This view allowed ...