A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red ... Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously ...

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Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been previously imaged by other spacecraft ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

from a new perspective. On Thursday, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne announced Hera passed Mars and its two moons on Wednesday. The images the space probe had taken were first ...

New research shows why the planet's surface ... Researchers used data from orbiting Mars spacecraft like NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency's Mars Express and ExoMars ...

Hera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on ... blown out by a giant impact. The new data may help them figure out the moon's origin. During the flyby ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to rovers on the Martian surface. The only way to see Deimos’ far side up close is ...

but because Phobos is closer to Mars, it has been previously imaged by other spacecraft. "For Deimos, we don't have as many images as Phobos, so all opportunities to see Deimos are high value ...