Launched in October 2018, BepiColombo aims to collect data on Mercury's magnetism, gaseous exosphere, and surface features that could help explain these oddities and more. On the way, its ...

Despite this relatively low resolution, the images are still scientifically valuable as they show many of the planet’s surface features. There won’t be any more close-up images of Mercury from ...

When the space probe Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in 1974, the first-ever surface features on that planet were imaged. So the WGPSN (founded in 1973) decided on the categories/themes for the various ...

Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, ...

it has been assumed that the new mercury surface exposed in the jet is uncharged, and that the charging of the surface takes place comparatively slowly, so that if the drops follow one another ...