At the bottom left of the image is Mercury's Caloris basin, the tiny planet's largest impact crater which is over 930 miles (1,500 km) wide. One of the oddest features in the new BepiColombo ...

The Caloris Basin, created by a massive ancient collision, is one of the defining geological features of Mercury. The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft, which has been studying Mercury ...

Among Mercury’s most iconic features is the Caloris Basin, the planet’s largest and most prominent impact crater, spanning over 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) in diameter. One image from the ...

Smaller, new craters have marked the interior. Mercury’s largest impact crater, the Caloris basin, appears in the lower left area of the planet. BepiColombo caught sight of some younger surface ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

Despite Mercury being about 39% as far from the ... Dominating the bottom left is the massive Caloris basin, spanning 1,500 km, surrounded by radiating troughs from its ancient impact.

Captured by M-CAM-1, this image shows the huge Caloris Basin, as well as possible lava flows. Credit: ESA / JAXA This will be the last time the M-CAMs get a peek at Mercury, reports the ESA.

Because Mercury spins on an axis with a miniscule ... Planitia that were flooded with lava billions of years ago. The Caloris basin is also visible in the bottom left of the photograph; with ...