Mercury is no easy target - its proximity to the Sun makes it harder to reach than Jupiter. But in 2023, BepiColombo soared in for a second flyby, capturing ghostly terrain and unexpected anomalies in ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's unique density and iron-rich core may be the result of a glancing collision with a ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

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In this work, we evaluated the rates of single event effects on the memories embedded in four instruments aboard the joint European Space Agency and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency BepiColombo ...

Abstract: The BepiColombo mission to Mercury is an ESA/JAXA cornerstone mission, consisting of two spacecraft in orbit around Mercury addressing several scientific issues. One spacecraft is the ...