A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
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 ...
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.
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...
Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained ...