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Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1
Mercury's shadowy north pole revealed by M-CAM 1
This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over Mercury's north pole gave the spacecraft's monitoring camera 1(M-CAM 1) a unique opportunity to peer down into the shadowy polar craters. Along the terminator, just to the left of the solar array, the sunlit rims of craters Prokofiev, Kandinsky, Tolkien and Gordimer can be seen, including some of their central peaks.
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