The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...
Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
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.
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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 ...