A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
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.
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 ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
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 ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
The European Space Agency launched Hera in 2024 to test asteroid-deflection techniques in deep space. The agency aims to ...
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