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Mars Gets a Close-Up and a Photo Bomb

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN · 2d

Check Out These Rare Images of Deimos, One of Mars' Mysterious Moons

Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons, from 621 miles away while en route to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. 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.

Space.com on MSN · 3d

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 impact on Mars.

The New York Times · 2d

Mars Gets a Close-Up and a Photo Bomb as Europe’s Hera Mission Swoops Past

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

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Asteroid probe snaps rare photos of Martian moon

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...

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Video: Time lapse simulation of Hera's Mars flyby

ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's ...

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‘A great success story for the Irish space strategy’: Technology designed in Dublin guiding Mars fly-by

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...

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