While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, the ESA said. Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars.

On March 12, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons, from 621 miles away while en route to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

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 ...

wants to launch a satellite to closely watch how it breaks up during its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere. ESA has awarded a contract to European technology group Deimos to begin developing ...

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. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews wrote ...

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars. The pictures were taken by the ESA's Hera mission, which is on its way to an asteroid called ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

14.61 x 12.36 in. (37.1 x 31.4 cm.) ...

The study's findings have implications for Deimos, too. Fornasier noted that ... spotted in mysterious 'Inca City' on Mars in new satellite photos Taken by high-resolution cameras onboard the ...

This shoebox-sized instrument has just captured a remarkable image of the planet Mars and its enigmatic moon Deimos, marking a major milestone in the mission. Contribution to an International ...

Mars' moon Deimos silhouetted against the red planet, which appears blue from an infrared image, as captured by ESA’s Hera spacecraft. Photo / AFP On the way to investigate the scene of a ...

Although just a test of Hera's three main instruments, the mission is hoped to shed a bit more light on the small satellite of the neighboring planet. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos ...