Additionally, ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are collaborating on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. In January 2025, BepiColombo will make its sixth flyby of Mercury ...

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A large metallic core takes up 85% of Mercury’s radius, and it’s also the least explored of the solar system’s terrestrial planets. The last completed mission to Mercury, NASA’s MESSENGER ...

That’s because these ion drives are real. The craft is actually two spacecraft in one with two different Mercury missions. The Mercury planetary orbiter will study the surface while the ...

The launch was broadcast live on JAXA's official website. "The mission comprises two science orbiters: ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).

the ESA marveled. What's more, these craters could harbor frozen water — a possibility the mission intends to soon investigate. On Mercury's northern hemisphere, the cratered surface has been ...