However, captured bodies usually end up in eccentric, inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion.

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to rovers on the Martian surface. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is ...

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This marks the first use of Hera’s science instruments, providing a detailed view ...

However, captured bodies usually end up in eccentric, inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion. So an ...

coming within 5,000 km of the planet’s surface and just 300 km from its city-sized moon Deimos. This flyby was a great opportunity to perform an in-orbit calibration for the instruments on board ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

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

Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars ... site investigation of the only object in our Solar System to have had its orbit measurably altered by human action." Kerry Breen is a news editor ...

It completes one orbit around Mars every 30 hours. Aside from capturing images of the slightly misshapen moon, Hera also performed some joint observations of Deimos with ESA’s Mars Express ...

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 ...