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The Europe-Japan mission to Mercury sends back photos of the planet’s cratered surface
Photos from a fly-by of Mercury, the least-explored planet in our solar system, show ithas a crater-riddled surface that resembles Earth’s Moon. The photos came from BepiColombo, a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that launched from Europe’s Spaceport in 2018. The mission has two linked…
Joint Europe-Japan Space Mission Captures Its First Flyby Photos of Mercury
A space mission jointly launched by the European and Japanese space agencies has captured its first, up-close look at the planet Mercury.A pair of linked orbiters known together as BepiColombo snapped several photos on Oct. 1 during a long-awaited flyby around the innermost planet of our Solar System. The images show Mercury’s northern hemisphere and…