O n March 12, 2025, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ ...

During a flyby of Mars on Wednesday (March 12), ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos. The European Space Agency ...

On March 12, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera spacecraft captured rare images of Deimos, one of Mars’ two moons, from 621 miles away while en route to the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

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.

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.

A thermal camera on the Hera spacecraft took images that will help scientists characterize the texture and density of the material that makes up Deimos. Credit: ESA / JAXA Near the top of the ...

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, yesterday. The mission’s flyby was ...

On a flyby of Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) captured a rare photo of its second moon - but what do we know about it? It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos ...

The gravity assist maneuver was not left just at that, as Hera's European Space Agency (ESA) handlers took the opportunity to take a few shots of the Red Planet's more mysterious moon, Deimos.

a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday. Europe's HERA mission is aiming to ...

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.

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission's March 12, 2025 gravity-assist flyby of Mars. | Credit: ESA ...