Flying 295 km above Mercury, it photographed icy craters, volcanic plains, and the planet's largest impact crater. Mercury reflects two-thirds less light than Earth's Moon, making its surface ...

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"This signal shows us that there is a very fast, supersonic, jet wind around the planet's equator." The researchers were able to make this discovery by using the CRyogenic high-resolution InfraRed ...

above the surface—compared with up to 14 km for an airliner. Satellites here offer high-resolution ground images but see any given point only briefly as they sweep around the planet ...

Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest of their kind ever ...

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New study finds solid diamonds beneath Mercury’s surface ... a scientist at the Center for High-Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Beijing. Scientists believe Mercury formed like ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, for example, swoops just a few million miles away from the sun's surface ... Dwarf planet Pluto, on the other hand, has a fairly squashed orbit. Mercury, the closest ...

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Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

and the planet's largest impact crater. Mercury reflects two-thirds less light than Earth's Moon, making its surface appear remarkably dark. The flyby ... Leonardo Di Caprio pledges one million ...