The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
ESA’s Hera probe captures stunning images of Mars and its moon Deimos during a historic flyby, offering new insights into the ...
While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging ... That mission, in conjunction with NASA and French and German space agencies, will collect detailed measurements of Mars ...
In a little less than two years, Hera will reach the target asteroids from NASA's DART mission to begin a crash investigation.
If you want to know about Hera, a satellite hurtling through deep space toward two asteroids, you can just ask it. “My mission is to study the aftermath of NASA’s DART impact on the asteroid ...
The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
The spacecraft Hera’s photographs are some of the few ... Though Dimorphos and the asteroid Didymos pose no threat to Earth, in 2022 NASA smacked a spacecraft into Dimorphos as part of its ...
Europe's HERA mission is aiming to find out how much of an impact a NASA spacecraft made when it deliberately smashed into an asteroid in 2022 in the first test of our planetary defenses.