Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun ... Additionally, studies of Mercury's crust and lithosphere have utilized high-resolution gravity and topography data from the MESSENGER mission.

Flying over ... images with a resolution of 1024 x 1024. Despite this relatively low resolution, the images are still scientifically valuable as they show many of the planet’s surface features.

As it circled it, it snapped these incredible images of one of the Solar System's most mysterious planets. BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. It relies on two different orbiters ...