The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

A black and white camera with a resolution of 1020 by 1020 pixels was used to capture the images, as well as an infrared ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, the ESA said. Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars.

as well as an infrared camera and a hyperspectral imager that can sense a range of colours beyond the limits of the human eye. Hera was moving at 9 kilometres per second relative to Mars and was ...

But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian flyby and use it to test the mechanical eyes that will allow Hera to study the asteroid it is targeting, Dimorphos.