A joint European-Japanese spacecraft has made its closest flyby of Mercury yet, offering new snapshots of the rocky planet’s surface ... including a high-resolution color camera, to make ...

We now have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many ... the time it takes Mercury to rotate once on its axis is 59 days, so that all parts of its surface experiences periods of intense ...

It is a world of extremes. 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 ...

The High Resolution Stereo head works on pushbroom mode: sensors image a line on the planet surface perpendicular to the ground ... There are examples showing the surfaces of planets (Mercury, Mars), ...