3 days ago · Hera will also image Mars’s larger moon Phobos as it begins to move away from Mars. Deimos comes into view about 23 minutes after the video begins, starting at 12:07 GMT, while the much further star-like Phobos becomes visible one hour and seven minutes into the video, at 12:49 GMT.

1 day ago · 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.

1 day ago · Watch the replay of our Hera mission Mars flyby event. On 12 March 2025, ESA’s Hera mission came to within 5000 km of the surface of the red planet and 300 km of Mars’s more distant and enigmatic moon Deimos. During this flyby, Hera performed observations of both Mars and the city-sized Deimos. Hera then needed to swing its High Gain ...

4 days ago · Hera Mars flyby. On Wednesday 12 March 2025 Hera – ESA's first Space Safety mission – comes to within 5000 km of the surface of the red planet and 300 km of Mars’s more distant and enigmatic moon Deimos. During this flyby Hera is performing observations of both Mars and the city-sized Deimos.

1 day ago · Tiniest Mars moon Deimos spotted by Europe's asteroid-chasing spacecraft On Wednesday, during a Mars gravity assist, Hera used its trio of instruments to hone in on Mars and on of its small moons -- the first objects photographed by its cameras beyond Earth. Hera took the photographs of moon Deimos from just 620 miles away.

1 day ago · Hera was about 620 miles (1000 km) from the 7.7-mile-wide (12.4-m) Martian moon when the image was taken. Deimos orbits approximately 14,600 miles (23,500 km) from the surface of Mars.

2 days ago · 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. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...

2 days ago · Hera comes to about 5,000 km from the surface of Mars during its flyby. It will also image Deimos, the smaller of Mars's two moons, from a minimum 1000 km away (while venturing as close as 300 km).

22 hours ago · But HERA will not reach the asteroid – which is 11 million kilometres (seven million miles) from Earth in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – until late 2026. A last view of Hera before being encapsulated within its Falcon 9 launcher fairing. On the long voyage there, the spacecraft slingshotted around Mars on Wednesday.

1 day ago · Hera came as near as 5000 kilometres to the surface of Mars, receiving a gravity boost that will fling it onwards to Dimorphos. The manoeuvre shortened its journey time by many months and saved it ...