BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters

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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
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Kiona Smith is a science writer based in the Midwest, where they write about space and archaeology. They've written for Inverse, Ars Technica, Forbes and authored the book, Peeing and Pooping in Space: A 100% Factual Illustrated History. They attended Texas A&M University and have a degree in anthropology.

Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesThis greyscale part of this image shows the first-ever measurement by a spacecraft of how Mercury radiates in mid-infrared light.

"Because Mercury's surface is surprisingly poor in iron, we have been testing natural and synthetic minerals that lack iron," said Solmaz Adeli of the German Aerospace Center, project lead for the latest flyby,The latest flyby, MERTIS's first chance to shine, captured a swath of Mercury's northern hemisphere, including part of a wide volcanic plain and part of the Caloris Basin: a rocky plain inside a large impact crater, which, on every other orbit, passes directly...

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