The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

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

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The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

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Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

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The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian flyby and use it to test the mechanical eyes that will allow Hera to study the asteroid it is targeting, Dimorphos.