/PRNewswire/ Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, some craters on Mercury s poles contain ice. The deposits, which were first detected in the early.
The BepiColombo mission made the first of six flybys of Mercury at 11.34pm yesterday, using the planet s gravity to slow the spacecraft down to take a low resolution photo of the planet.
A European-Japanese space mission seeking to learn more about Mercury caught its first glimpse of the planet late Friday when a European spacecraft shot a photo of it from over 2,400 kilometers away.