LOOK: NASA shares a video showing the global color map of Mercury's surface. The space agency said this clip was made possible by combining thousands of sets of images obtained by the MESSENGER spacecraft's Wide Angle Camera. "The vibrant colors are related to the variations in how much of the Sun's energy its surface reflects at specific wavelengths, a concept called spectral reflectance," NASA explained. (Image from NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution

BepiColombo time lapse shows Mercury surface in unparalleled detail 🌑 The European Space Agency have released a time lapse of all the images from BepiColombo's recent Mercury flyby, its last before it starts orbiting the solar system’s innermost world in late 2026. Since launching in 2018, the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has flown by Mercury six times, using each successive approach to reduce its speed and adjust its flight path to make it easier to get into orbit. While the