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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.

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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 ...

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The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

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 ...