European and Japanese Spacecraft Examines Mercury’s Pole — VOA Learning English
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A spacecraft recently sent back some of the best close-up pictures yet of the planet Mercury’s north pole.
The European and Japanese robotic explorer went as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole.
The European Space Agency (ESA) released images that show craters with deep shadows on our solar system’s smallest planet.
ESA noted that the edges, or rims, of the craters called Prokofiev, Kandinsky, Tolkien and Gordimer create permanent shadows. As a result, these unlit craters are some of the coldest places in the Solar System even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.
Cameras also took images of neighboring volcanic…
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