The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made ...

BepiColombo is the first European mission to explore Mercury, the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. The European Space Agency and Japanese Aerospace Exploration ...

BELA is a laser altimeter that will measure the planet's topography globally, including the first altitude measurements of the Southern Hemisphere. From distances of up to 1400 kilometers from Mercury ...

I have also been Leader of the IAVCEI Commission on Remote Sensing, and in 2005 I was appointed to the PPARC Solar System Advisory Panel and the BepiColombo Oversight Committee. In May 2006 I was ...