NASA’s Mariner 10 and Messenger spacecraft both checked out Mercury. Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in the 1970s while Messenger reached Mercury in 2011 and crashed into the planet at the end of its ...

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Then, in 2004 a small spacecraft called Messenger entered Mercury's orbit and stayed there for no less than four years, eventually crashing into the planet itself. It is this mission that managed ...

And so close to the sun, a spacecraft has to withstand extreme heat and radiation. Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER ...

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and NASA’s MESSENGER, which mapped it from 2008-2015. BepiColumbo is on a seven-year journey from Earth to Mercury, most of which is necessary for spacecraft to slow down enough to enter orbit ...

BepiColombo will only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. Captured by M-CAM-2, this image shows Nathair Facula, a bright spot at the top of the planet ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles above Mercury’s night side before ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/DLR To date, only two spacecraft have visited Mercury; Mariner 10 and Messenger. There is now ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander ...

They were used extensively on Magellan, operating at Venus’s distance from the Sun (0.72 au). Messenger, the Mercury orbiter spacecraft, which had to endure operating only 0.38 AU from the Sun, ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.