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.

In 2026, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, aiming to explore the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and return samples from Phobos to Earth.

Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war, Ares, which the Romans called Mars. The names Phobos and Deimos mean ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to the moons of our neighbouring planet Mars, discovered in 1877 by the US astronomer Asaph Hall. Besides Earth's Moon, they are the ...

During the flyby, Hera deployed two additional camera systems alongside the asteroid ... mission aims to clarify how Mars's moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed and provide insights into planetary ...

While Mars currently has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, scientists from the SETI Institute and Purdue University believe that the red planet once had a much bigger moon. Deimos, the smaller ...

It has been orbiting Mars for the past two years regularly flying past Deimos and its big sibling moon Phobos. It used instruments that measure infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths in order to ...

A study published in Icarus explores the possibility that Mars’ moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed from asteroid debris torn apart by the planet’s gravitational forces. Researchers ran advanced ...

It's tidally locked to Mars Deimos rotates in ... suggested that Deimos and Phobos could have actually been one asteroid that was torn apart into two separate moons. Among the scientists ...

An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday ... as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small Martian moons. The operators of the European Space Agency’s Hera ...

Deimos, the smaller of the two moons, orbits Mars every 30 hours and is less than 10 miles across. Its larger sibling Phobos bears many scars, including craters and deep grooves running across its ...

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been previously imaged by other spacecraft. "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos ...