This article discusses the increase in respiratory illnesses after the holiday season and highlights new images of Mercury captured by the BepiColombo spacecraft.
Respiratory illnesses are on the rise following the holiday season, according to a local doctor. Meanwhile, the European Space Agency ( ESA ) has released stunning close-up photos of Mercury 's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. The spacecraft swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury 's night side before passing directly over the planet's north pole.
The ESA released the images Thursday, showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of Mercury. Cameras also captured views of neighboring volcanic plains and Mercury's largest impact crater, which spans more than 930 miles (1,500 kilometers). The maneuver put the spacecraft on course to enter orbit around Mercury late next year. The spacecraft holds two orbiters, one for Europe and the other for Japan, that will circle the planet's poles. The spacecraft is named after the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, an Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew on the U.S. space shuttles
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