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BepiColombo Leaves Earth For Mercury 
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BepiColombo iftoff
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar System's innermost planet.
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BepiColombo Science Orbiters Stacked Together
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BepiColombo Science Orbiters
The two science orbiters of the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission are connected in their launch configuration and the European science orbiter and transport module have been given the go-ahead to be loaded with propellants.
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Video: BepiColombo's Journey to Mercury
Animation visualising BepiColombo's launch and cruise to Mercury.
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The Chemical Composition of Mercury
The chemical composition of a planetary body reflects its starting conditions modified by numerous processes during its formation and geological evolution.
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Mapping Geological Features on Mercury
Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System is a grey, barren world to our human eyes.
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Impact of Small Collisions On Mercury's Thin Atmosphere
Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers.
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Mercury's Poles May Be Icier Than Previously Thought
The scorching hot surface of Mercury seems like an unlikely place to find ice, but research over the past three decades has suggested that water is frozen on the first rock from the Sun, hidden away on crater floors that are permanently shadowed from the Sun's blistering rays.
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European Space Agency Media Briefing on the Mercury BepiColombo Mission 
The European Space Agency held a media briefing at ESA's technical centre in the Netherlands on July 6 to discuss the upcoming mission BepiColombo to Mercury.
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BepiColombo to Uncover Mercury's Mysteries
Mercury remains the most mysterious planet of our inner Solar System. BepiColombo, Europe's first mission to Mercury, will set off in October 2018 on a journey to the smallest and least explored rocky planet in our Solar System.
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Great Valley Found on Mercury
Scientists have discovered a new large valley on Mercury that may be the first evidence of buckling of the planet's outer silicate shell in response to global contraction.
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Mercury is Tectonically Active
It's small, it's hot, and it's shrinking. New NASA-funded research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet.
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Volcanic Activity on Mercury Stopped About 3.5 Billion Years Ago
New research from North Carolina State University finds that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely ended about 3.5 billion years ago.
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Russia Plans for Ganymede and Mercury Missions Continue
Russian plans to send a lander to Ganymede, the Laplace mission, and an orbiter to Mercury. This video from the Russian space agency ROSCOMOS provides an update on the missions.
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Preparing BepiColombo For Mercury
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury must withstand extremely harsh conditions while in orbit around the innermost planet of our Solar System.
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Researchers Trace Mercury's Origins to Rare Meteorite
Around 4.6 billion years ago, the universe was a chaos of collapsing gas and spinning debris.
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Stunning Video: Mercury Transits The Face of The Sun
Around 13 times per century, Mercury passes between Earth and the sun in a rare astronomical event known as a planetary transit.
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First Global Topographic Model of Mercury
The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to characterize fully the planet's geologic history.
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