A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
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Space.com on MSNTiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...
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New Scientist on MSNHera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon DeimosA mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNCheck 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 ...
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.
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...
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Astronomy on MSNMartian moon caught on camera during Hera flybyDeimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...
The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...
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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