Images from the Hera mission show the object in remarkable detail — a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

capturing unprecedented images of Mars' lesser-known moon, Deimos. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively little about them, especially the smaller one, Deimos.

The lumpy, 12.5 kilometer-wide moon is the smaller and less well-known of the two moons of Mars. Exactly how Deimos and the bigger Phobos were formed remains a matter of debate.

Mars' moon Deimos silhouetted against the red planet, which appears blue from an infrared image, as captured by ESA’s Hera spacecraft. Photo / AFP On the way to investigate the scene of a ...

From our earthly perspective, the moon and Mars will appear closest to each other at around 8 p.m. Eastern Time, with Mars slipping about 1.2 degrees beneath the moon's lower limb. Since the moon ...

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

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...