The spacecraft obtained stunning new images of Mercury during its third close flyby on June 19.
during its third gravity-assist flyby. The mission team took use of this chance to acquire data and images of this solar system's innermost planet.
The probe also documented a crater, which has been named Edna Manley by the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature after a Jamaican/British artist who died in 1987. Rothery, who is part of this mission’s science imaging team, further explained: "It will clearly be of interest for BepiColombo scientists in the future because it has excavated dark 'low-reflectance material' that may be remnants of Mercury's early carbon-rich crust. In addition, the basin floor within its interior has been flooded by smooth lava, demonstrative of Mercury's prolonged history of volcanic activity.
Not just that, but the three images show a variety of ancient impact basins that were most likely filled with volcanic lavas when the planet was young and tectonically active – around the first billion years of its existence.
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