Hacker News with Generative AI: Mercury

Top three images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby (esa.int)
On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury for the sixth time, successfully completing the final ‘gravity assist manoeuvre’ needed to steer it into orbit around the planet in late 2026. The spacecraft flew just a few hundred kilometres above the planet's north pole.
Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1 (esa.int)
Modeling study proposes a diamond layer at the core-mantle boundary on Mercury (phys.org)
Mercury: The Solar System's smallest planet may once have been as large as Earth (bbc.com)