The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

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While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Mars is probably smaller than you think. It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are petite, measuring just a few kilometers in ...

The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...

As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small ...