Phobos Orbit around Mars

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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART impact in the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroid system.

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European spacecraft got rare close-up of Mars' lesser-known moon

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with Hera because the signal was blocked. Though the blackout was planned for the maneuver, Ian Carnelli, the European Space Agency's Hera mission manager, said it was deeply emotional.

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Mysterious Mars moon captured in unprecedented images by space probe

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

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Spacecraft Takes Time to Shoot Mars' More Mysterious Moon as It Heads Deep Into Space

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

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Phobos and Deimos: Care to Know How The Moons of Mars Came About?

But Phobos and Deimos orbit in an almost circular way around Mars, and are in line with the equator of the Red Planet. To solve the mystery, the Zurich astronomers collated data on the ...

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Planet Mars, explained

Each century, Phobos gets about six feet closer to Mars ... fall silent en route, miss orbit around Mars, burn up in the atmosphere, crash on the surface, or die prematurely.

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The aim – Phobos and Deimos

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to the moons of our neighbouring planet Mars, discovered in 1877 by the US astronomer Asaph Hall. Besides Earth's Moon, they are the ...

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Mars may have made its 2 moons by ripping an asteroid apart

However, Phobos and Deimos have neatly circular orbits aligned with Mars' equatorial plane, which seems more likely if they had formed in orbit around Mars. Another hypothesis is that ...

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