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.
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.
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 ...
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.