Spinning Mercury: Nasa reveal stunning animation showing giant craters on the planet's surface. Mosaics were created with thousands of images taken by orbiting Nasa spacecraft ...

NASA's Messenger spacecraft orbiting Mercury spotted three craters that look surprisingly like Mickey Mouse. But the resemblance to Disney's iconic cartoon mouse is an optical illusion.

View animation. Mercury has never looked better. Volcanic plains, craters, ... Stitched together from over 100,000 images taken by NASA’s now-defunct MESSENGER spacecraft, ...

The MESSENGER spacecraft settled into orbit around Mercury earlier this month, ... MESSENGER’s first picture from Mercury orbit! By Phil Plait. March 29, 2011 2:46 PM.

T he joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission successfully completed its fourth flyby of Mercury on September 5, 2024, bringing the spacecraft closer to its final orbit around the innermost planet.