ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.
Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...
Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...
Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART ...
The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...
While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is for a probe like Hera to fly behind it, making such images more of a rarity. “It’s one of the very few images we have of the far side of ...
Hera was moving at 9 kilometres per second relative to Mars and was able to image the 12.4-kilometre-long Deimos from just 1000 kilometres away. It could also photograph the side of the moon that ...
For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
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. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...