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European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed ...
The images run from 60 to 90 degrees north latitude, with a resolution of 6.5 feet (2 meters) per pixel. At right are images of the Thales crater. (Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University) ...
A true-color satellite image shows Greenland, the North Pole and Europe. Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. 7.
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European Space Agency released the stunning snapshots Thursday, showing the permanently shadowed ...
This image, captured April 26 2013, shows an area of the North Pole covered in snow.
Craters at Mercury's north pole are visible just left of the "terminator," or the line between day and night. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission snapped this image on January 8, 2025. ESA ...
Scientists at the European Space Agency have stitched together images to create an artificial photo of what they believe the sun’s poles look like.
New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.