BepiColombo's Sixth Mercury Flyby

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BepiColombo mission

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The BepiColombo spacecraft performed its sixth flyby of Mercury on January 8

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BepiColombo spacecraft successfully performed its sixth flyby of Mercury on January 8 .

Images show the innermost planet in the solar system, Mercury 's shadowed side.

Images also show that large regions of the planet’s crater-filled surface have been made smooth by lava.

Below Nathair Facula , the photo shows the Rustaveli crater, a 125-mile -wide formation with a ring of mountains inside. The crater has since been filled with lava, meaning the mountains’ peaks barely protrude from the crater’s smooth surface. This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian . Sara Carmignani has a PhD in natural sciences and has been working in science journalism since 2022 . For WIRED she writes about medicine, biotechnology, archaeology, the environment, and space..

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