A joint European-Japanese spacecraft has made its closest flyby of Mercury yet, offering new snapshots of the rocky planet’s surface ... including a high-resolution color camera, to make ...

The High Resolution Stereo head works on pushbroom mode: sensors image a line on the planet surface perpendicular to the ground ... There are examples showing the surfaces of planets (Mercury, Mars), ...

It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the ...