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A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing ...

Both Phobos and Deimos are observable from the Martian surface. Phobos, larger and closer to Mars than Deimos, exhibits noticeable waxing and waning phases within a single appearance due to its rapid ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos ...

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, March 12. The mission’s flyby was used as a ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

There's not much hustle and bustle on Mars. The red planet is inhabited by no-one that we know of, except the robotic rovers toiling away to excavate its secrets. The only sound you'd hear is the ...

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. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews wrote in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, ...