The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

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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 ...

ISAE-SUPAERO is actively collaborating in the international Hera probe program through the research work of Naomi Murdoch and the SSPA team. The probe, which is en route to study the asteroid ...

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As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small Martian moons. The operators of the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft were ...

Hera mission by providing a powerful hyperspectral camera: the HyperScout H. This shoebox-sized instrument has just captured a remarkable image of the planet Mars and its enigmatic moon Deimos ...

ESA’s Hera mission scientist Michael Kueppers said. “Other Hera instruments we will utilise once we reach the Deimos and Dimorphos asteroids were not activated, either because they are not usable at ...

This is the first serious scientific test for the device on its long journey. During the flyby, Hera focused on Deimos. This small moon of Mars is only 12,4 km in diameter. Its origin is still a ...

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. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is ...