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.

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.

Aug 1, 2024 · HERA is a unique 650-square-foot habitat split among two floors and a loft, designed to serve as an analog for isolation, confinement, and remote conditions in exploration scenarios. NASA Selects Crew for Next Simulated Mars Mission.

1 day ago · Hera was using Mars in what is known as a gravity assist, both accelerating the spacecraft and adjusting its flight path. But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian ...

2 days ago · Hera’s 12 March flyby of Mars was an integral part of its cruise phase through deep space, carefully designed by ESA’s Flight Dynamics team. By coming as close as 5000 km away from Mars, the planet’s gravity shifted the spacecraft’s trajectory towards its final destination, Dimorphos and the larger Didymos asteroid it orbits around. ...

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).

2 days ago · Hera will be the first mission to complete a rendezvous with a binary asteroid pair. To get there, Hera had to pass by Mars for a gravity assist, a maneuver that changes the spacecraft's momentum. The flyby provided the opportunity for unprecedented close-ups of the Martian moon Deimos against the dramatic backdrop of Mars.

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 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 ...

2 days 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 ...

1 day ago · Moving at 9 kilometers per second relative to Mars, Hera was able to capture images of Deimos from a distance of up to 1,000 kilometers, observing the far side of the moon, which is less visible from Mars. During the flyby, Hera used three instruments: the black-and-white camera (Asteroid Framing); the Hyperscout H hyperspectral imager to help ...

Nov 8, 2024 · ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since launch on 7 October. On 23 October, Hera fired its three orbital control...

4 days ago · Hera will also image Mars’s larger moon Phobos as it begins to move away from Mars. Launched on 7 October 2024, Hera on its way to visit the first asteroid to have had its orbit altered by human action. By gathering close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, which was impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022, Hera will help turn asteroid ...

2 days ago · The flyby of Mars and Deimos wasn't a detour but a necessary maneuver to put the spacecraft on the right trajectory toward its ultimate destination. Swinging within 3,100 miles of Mars, Hera used ...

2 days 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 Antenna back to Earth to transmit its data home.

Jul 2, 2024 · Four dedicated explorers—Jason Lee, Stephanie Navarro, Shareef Al Romaithi, and Piyumi Wijesekara—just returned from a 45-day simulated journey to Mars, testing the boundaries of human endurance and teamwork within NASA’s HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

5 days ago · As Hera departs Mars it will also have a chance to image Mars’s other moon, Phobos. Hera’s speed relative to Mars will be unchanged, but the spacecraft will swing around on course towards Didymos on a fuel-efficient basis. Watch the star-studded webcast image release from Hera’s flyby by the mission’s science team on Thursday 13 March ...

1 day ago · Lancée en octobre, Hera n’atteindra son objectif final – situé à 11 millions de kilomètres de la Terre, dans la ceinture d’astéroïdes située entre Mars et Jupiter – que fin 2026. En ...