Europe Launches Mission to Mercury

Credit: ESA
An Arianespace heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Oct. 19 to send a pair of European- and Japanese-built orbiters to Mercury for a flagship science mission to learn more about the Solar System’s innermost and least-explored terrestrial...

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