What a hunk!
Though illuminating, that first image is mostly overwhelmed by deep shadow, the probe still in the clutches of the planet's nightside. A follow-up image at the 20-minute mark and 2,100 miles up, though, brings into light more of Mercury's rough topology.highlights several notable geographical features, including craters and an escarpment called the Beagle Rupes, a roughly 370-mile-long tectonic stretchmark that formed when the planet cooled and contracted.
At the mission's outset, BepiColombo scientists were keen on studying a 135-mile wide crater, which could hold secrets to Mercury's ancient history. One small hiccup? It didn't have a name yet. "During our image planning for the flyby we realized this large crater would be in view, but it didn't yet have a name," said David Rothery, a planetary geoscientist and a member of the BepiColombo imaging team, in a
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