Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the small world from 2011 to 2015. Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury ...
Europe's BepiColombo mission ... Mercury's magnetic field, surface features, and internal structure. Editor's Note: The original headline of this story has been updated to clarify that this isn't ...
Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly ... following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011.