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Perspective view of a lobate scarp on Mercury named Carnegie Rupes, colour-coded according to surface altitude. The crater near the middle is nearly 40 km across. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

Mercury is shrinking and getting smaller

Mercury is shrinking and getting smaller according to latest research because its interior has been cooling down as internal heat leaks away.

Colours of Mercury - Credit NASA

Take A Trip to Mercury!

Let's take a trip to the planet Mercury. Use your cursor to check out its surface inside! The spacecraft Bepi Colombi is on its way to orbit the planet in 2025 & took amazing images of Earth on its wa...

BepiColombo takes image of Earth as it flies by April 10, 2020

Visiting Mercury – BepiColombo flies by Earth

Visiting Mercury - BepiColombo flies by Earth on its way to Mercury, executing the first of its many planetary flybys. It will reach in 2025.

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Space news: Landing on an asteroid, visiting Mercury and collecting solar data

Space News: Hyabusa was sent to Ryugu, Bepi Colombo went to Mercury and the Parker Solar Probe is orbiting the sun and sending back important data.