NASA is asking for the public's help, but there's a catch. Mercury's surface is seen in exaggerated color in this image provided by NASA. NASA/JHU APL/CIW — -- NASA is asking for the public's ...
NEW YORK - Think the moon has many craters? New photos from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury show the tiny inner planet has far more impressive battle scars from regular high-speed peltings by ...
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 ...
Craters at Mercury's poles contain permanently shadowed areas that are some of the coldest sites in the solar system, despite their proximity to the sun. ESA / BepiColombo / MTM, ESA Standard Licence ...
Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun has “frozen water” on its surface — and they’re excited to get a ...
Scientists have found a huge 900-meter-wide asteroid crater in Guangdong Province, China, three times more massive than the ...
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At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.
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A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe. The ...
"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." When you purchase ...