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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)
Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, ...
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Europe’s Hera spacecraft aces self-driving test at Mars before asteroid mission
Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...
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Spacecraft Takes Time to Shoot Mars' More Mysterious Moon as It Heads Deep Into Space
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
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Mysterious Mars moon captured in unprecedented images by space probe
That maneuver shortened Hera's travel time to Dimorphos, the ESA said. Hera will also collect information about Didymos, the asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around. Hera is expected to reach the ...
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Planetary Defence Spacecraft Captures New Images of Mysterious Martian Moon Deimos During Flyby
New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...
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Innovative Dutch Technology Captures Historic Image of Mars and Deimos During ESA’s Hera Mission flyby
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 ...
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Martian moon caught on camera during Hera flyby
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in diameter (12.4 kilometers), is tidally-locked with the Red Planet making it often ...
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Conversations in space: How Hera is using AI to share its mission to defend Earth from asteroids
The satellite was launched in October 2024 and is expected to reach the binary asteroid system of Didymos and its moon Dimorphos. The Hera Space Companion is a creation of Terra Mater Studios (a ...
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Hera Asteroid Probe Spots Mysterious Martian Moon During Flyby
Dimorphos is a 558-foot-wide (170-meter) space rock that orbits its larger 2,625-foot-wide (800-meter) companion, Didymos. In September 2022, NASA’s 1,340-pound spacecraft smashed into Dimorphos ...
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Hera asteroid mission – close flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos
On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...
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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)
Credit: ESA Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of ...
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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. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...