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Spacecraft Sends First Mercury Images During Flyby
BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese spacecraft, got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system’s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.
The BepiColombo mission made the first of six...
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NASA Space Probe Explores Ganymede, the Moon of Jupiter
NASA’s space probe called "Juno" is now passing by Ganymede, the largest Moon in the solar system, in the closest flyby in two decades of any spacecraft near the heavenly body named after the handsome son of King Tros, whom Jupiter...