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Mercury's north pole photographed
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Mercury's north pole photographed

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Jan 11, 2025
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ESA/JAXA BepiColombo

The BepiColombo satellite, in orbit around Mercury, photographed the rocky world's north pole for the first time up close. I hope you like craters and stark shadows.

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre a…

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