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The images presented show Deimos set against a backdrop of the Red Planet below it as Hera flew within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of Mars and just 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) of Deimos.

Differences between the near and far side of Deimos have yet to be analyzed. Hope will continue its mission into 2024, observing Deimos throughout 2023 alongside its ongoing Mars observations.

Deimos, one of Mars' two moons, is eight miles wide and orbits about 14,600 miles away from the Red Planet. Credit: ESA This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

Tiny Deimos, on the other hand, may have remained intact for 3.5 billion years. It is on track to eventually escape Mars entirely, Dr. Usui says, to wander elsewhere in the void.

And Deimos isn’t made of the right stuff to be a D-type asteroid. In fact, its composition is startlingly similar to Mars itself, with all the right amounts of carbon and organic molecules.

Very little is known about Mars’ two moons, and even less so about Deimos. The closest approach to Deimos was made by the Viking 2 orbiter in 1977, which flew at a distance of 18 miles (30 ...

Deimos is tidally locked with Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet, so probes near Mars see only one side of the small moon, too — that is, until Hope arrived on the scene.

Deimos is dainty and has an odd, lumpy shape. Mars has two moons (Phobos is the other), and crater-pocked Deimos is the smaller of them at a mere 9 miles (15 kilometers) at its widest.