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.

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 ...

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.

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.

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the ... tethered satellite project that flew ...

Colombo's contributions to space exploration continued with his involvement in the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project ... our understanding of Mercury, a planet that remains ...

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 ...

The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to send a spacecraft to Mercury. This latest round of photos comes via the ...