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.

On March 12, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons ... asteroid whose orbit was changed by humans. Hera’s aim is to ...

Mars’s axis of rotation is tilted 25.2 degrees relative to the plane of the planet’s orbit around the sun, which helps give Mars seasons similar to those on Earth. Whichever hemisphere is ...

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 ...

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A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing unprecedented images of Mars ... to complete its orbit of Mars — only ...

the probe soared past Mars and sent back photos of the planet's surface, according to NASA. In 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 became the first mission to successfully orbit Mars. The Viking 1 and 2 ...

HiRISE images have false coloring that highlights distinct Martian features like the ejected material in this crater. Stranded on Mars, Watney had no technology to communicate with the crew in ...

On March 12, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons ... making Dimorphos the first (and currently only) asteroid whose orbit was ...