The European probe Mercury BepiColombo, sent into space, made its third close flyby of Mercury.
The European probe Mercury BepiColombo, flying 236 kilometers from the surface of Mercury, took pictures of the planet and sent them to Earth. This was announced on Tuesday, June 20, by the European Space Agency (ESA) and published a close-up image of Mercury taken by the BepiColombo probe.
Images sent to our planet show numerous craters, ancient volcanic mounds and lava flows.
One of the craters that caught the attention of scientists was named after Manley Crater, a Jamaican-British artist who died in 1987.
BepiColombo explained that the crater drew attention to itself through the discovery of “dark, low-reflective material” found in it, which scientists believe could be the remains of Mercury’s early carbon-rich crust.
In addition, in the images, scientists noticed the shelf of the Beagle Rupes, a 600 km long rock formed billions of years ago, and various ancient pools formed from the impacts of cosmic body on the planet and absorbed by the lava in the first billion years of the planet. life.
Recall that early astronomers discovered two potentially habitable exoplanets located 16 light years away from us.
One of the oldest planets in the universe has been discovered
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Source: korrespondent
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