Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
ESA/JAXA Mars’s two moons have mysterious origins. Both could be pieces of a disintegrating asteroid captured by the planet’s gravity, or perhaps the flotsam and jetsam leftover from a giant ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission. View on ...
An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red ...
Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
Deimos, one of Mars' two moons, is eight miles wide and orbits about 14,600 miles away from the Red Planet. Credit: ESA The ...