The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
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Hera 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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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
on 7 October 2024 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and did a flyby of Mars on 12 March 2025 on the way to the asteroid, which it won’t reach until October 2026. Hera came as near as 5000 ...
But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian flyby and use it to test the mechanical eyes that will allow Hera to study the asteroid it is targeting, Dimorphos.
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