Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons, from 621 miles away while en route to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos. Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning ...
The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
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 used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping ...
Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
When NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts its first test flight on the Red Planet, the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will be close by, as seen in this artist's concept. NASA MARCI ...
A small rock, similar to a flower or coral, was captured by the Curiosity rover on February 24 in the Gale Crater. The rock was formed billions of years ago when it was cemented by minerals and water.
A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small ... characterize the mineral makeup on the moon and chart surface temperatures. These features combined will help ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
These images, analysed by NASA experts ... Meanwhile, the rover continues its mission to find answers beneath the rocky surface of Mars, as it is there that many of the answers about the ...
A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small ... characterize the mineral makeup on the moon and chart surface temperatures. These features combined will help ...