A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
and because the moon is tidally locked — meaning one full spin matches the amount of time it takes to complete its orbit of ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
The 14,000 mph (22,530 kph) impact was powerful enough to alter the orbit of the ... daring and dedicated mission to the moons of Mars. The mission, led by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA ...
The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...
The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...