Cameras also captured views of neighboring, sunlit volcanic plains and Mercury's largest impact crater, which spans over 1,500 km. This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo ...

Flying over Mercury's north pole gave the spacecraft's monitoring camera 1 (M-CAM 1) a unique opportunity to peer down into the shadowy polar craters. M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of ...

The MTM packs three monitoring cameras called M-CAMs, which have already been used during five flybys of Mercury to snap incredible images of the surface. It did so during the sixth flyby ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

The spacecraft was a mere 183 miles above Mercury’s surface, giving it a good look at the pockmarked surface. BepiColombo's cameras captured Mercury as the spacecraft flew over the boundary ...

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher wasted no time revealing images of Mercury captured by BepiColombo's monitoring cameras (M-CAMs) at the space agency's Annual Press Briefing on Thursday morning.

The craft’s monitoring camera successfully passed over the planet ... the BepiColombo team will work hard to unravel as many of Mercury’s mysteries with the data from this flyby as we ...

After passing through Mercury's shadow, BepiColombo's monitoring camera 1 (M-CAM 1) captured its first close-up views of the planet's surface. Flying over the "terminator"—the boundary between ...

Despite Mercury being about 39% as far from the sun ... come from two M-CAM monitoring cameras on BepiColombo that are mostly there to monitor the spacecraft's solar panels, antenna and ...

Cameras also captured views of neighboring volcanic plains and Mercury’s largest impact crater, which spans more than 930 miles (1,500 kilometers). This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made ...