Despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, the pictured craters are some of ... to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew on the US space shuttles.

A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun ... can,” said the ESA’s Geraint Jones, the project scientist for BepiColombo.

but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet," BepiColombo's Project Scientist at ESA Geraint Jones said in a statement.

Although Mercury is a largely dark planet, its younger features (or more ... this flyby as we can,” Geraint Jones, BepiColombo’s project scientist at ESA, said in a statement.

Related: Mercury stuns in incredibly ... or one can use the help of the planets and do planetary flybys,” adds Johannes Benkhoff, ESA BepiColombo Project Scientist. “We needed nine flybys ...

but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet," said BepiColombo's Project Scientist at ESA, Geraint Jones, in a statement.

but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet,” Geraint Jones, BepiColombo’s Project Scientist at ESA, said in a statement.

Here's how, where, and when to see the planets line up — including a bonus appearance from Mercury. The planets are lining up ... For an at-home peek at the planetary parade, the Virtual Telescope ...