A cold spell at Linlithgow Palace, photographed by Gordon Clark. A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 3 and 10 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk.

Reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata), Samburu National Park, Kenya. (Credit: copyright by ... [+] Giraffe Conservation Foundation, with kind permission) How many species of giraffe are there?

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet.