As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet's magnetic field. These measurements provide a tantalizing taste of the ...

See Mercury’s Landscape in Stunning Detail A new map of the planet’s surface captures the depths of craters and the peaks of volcanic mountains Maris Fessenden - Former correspondent ...

A new explanation for the rocky world’s jumbled landscape opens a possibility that it could have had ingredients for habitability. By Shannon Hall Mercury — a planet with a surface hot enough ...

It probably as formed when Mercury's solid lithosphere (crust) buckled three or four billion years ago as the planet shrank while cooling. At 250 miles wide and 600 miles long, it's about twice as ...

The lowest point resides in Rachmaninoff basin, the suspected home of some of the most recent volcanic activity on the planet, and lies 3.34 miles (5.38 km) below the landscape average.

Mercury has never looked better. Volcanic plains, craters, mountains and valleys are showcased in the first complete topographic map of the innermost planet, released May 6. Stitched together from ...

Mercury is a planet of extremes. ... The landscape still has an other-worldly feel, Mari says, with greenish rocks rich in minerals. "In certain areas of Cyprus's mountains, ...

Mercury's Mysterious Rocks. When the planets and Earth's moon formed, their crusts were born from their mantles, ... If Pratt isostasy could explain Mercury's landscape, ...

Mercury, The Not So Shrunken Planet. Based on my research, which include image composites of two flyby views of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft, I conclude that Mercury has not cooled and ...

Until now, what was known about Mercury's surface was not even half the story. The only other spacecraft to get close to the planet, NASA's Mariner 10, did three flybys between 1974 and 1975 and ...