Hera Asteroid Probe Spots Mysterious Martian Moon During Flyby
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the less-seen side of Mars’ smaller, tidally-locked moon as it orbited its home planet.
The fundamental question of why Mars is red has been considered for hundreds if not for thousands of years,” Adam Valantinas, ...
NASA's Europa Clipper will fly past Mars today to adjust its trajectory and position itself for a critical phase of its ...
Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defense performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its trip ...
Study Finds on MSN5d
Martian meteorology: The hidden force behind weather on MarsHow's the weather up there? On Mars, weather forecasts haven't always been right at our fingertips. Now, recent research from ...
Guessing Headlights on MSN3d
Pulsar Fusion’s Sunbird: The Nuclear Rocket That Could Take Us to Mars FasterImagine cutting a trip to Mars in half. That’s the promise of Sunbird, a groundbreaking nuclear fusion rocket concept ...
Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...
Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that stretches out for around 1190 km," on Mars called Noctis Labyrinthus, ...
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