Stunning new images of Mercury show the scorched planets north pole

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) published the photos as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to send a craft to the rarely visited, and still quite mysterious, Mercury. This latest round of photos...