The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
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Check Out These Rare Images of Deimos, One of Mars’ Mysterious MoonsLike our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
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