Hera Asteroid Probe Spots Mysterious Martian Moon During Flyby
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the less-seen side of Mars’ smaller, tidally-locked moon as it orbited its home planet.
A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
that there was still a 1.7% chance that 2024 YR4 would impact the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. When concerns over the asteroid were first raised, there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern ...
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4’s once-in-thousand-years Moon impact poses future risks If asteroid 2024 YR4 were to hit the Moon, it would be an extremely rare phenomenon. According to Lindley Johnson ...
NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...
“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...
that there was still a 1.7% chance that 2024 YR4 would impact the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032. When concerns over the asteroid were first raised, there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos ... asteroid ...
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