The Kennedy Center’s outdoor space exhibit was disrupted when the planet Mars rolled off-campus — and ended up on the highway ...

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.

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 ...

Hera will also image Mars's larger moon Phobos as it begins to move away from Mars. In this sped-up simulation, Deimos is seen 30 seconds in, at 12:07 GMT, while the more distant star-like Phobos ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively ... to complete its orbit of Mars — only one side has been seen on the Red Planet. The Hera mission spacecraft captured ...

This means that the side of the moon seen in this new photo ... One is that Deimos, and its brother Phobos, were asteroids that got caught in the gravitational pull of Mars, and have been stuck ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with Hera because the signal was blocked. Though the blackout was planned for the ...

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 ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos ... were the black and white Asteroid Framing Camera which acquires images in visible light, the Hyperscout H hyperspectral imager that sees colors beyond ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos ... "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos, so all opportunities to see Deimos are high value," Hera's prinicpal ...