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           <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/esascience\/status\/1877291409381929312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">close-up photos<\/a> yet of Mercury&#8217;s north pole.<\/p>\n<p>The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles above Mercury&#8217;s night side before passing directly over the planet&#8217;s north pole. 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The spacecraft holds two orbiters, one for Europe and the other for Japan, that will circle the planet&#8217;s poles.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA&#8217;s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency&#8217;s tethered satellite project that flew on the U.S. space shuttles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Mercury Flyby \" height=\"619\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/10\/5574db11-ae87-4b68-a488-522f1ddaa9ae\/thumbnail\/620x619g8\/bb5d94508648a414f2abe26e0a4f6979\/ap25009551930976.jpg?v=e306e7b9fefc168c00baa623d76d1eaf 1x, 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