A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on ...

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

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.

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