The European Space Agency released a thrilling time-lapse video showing the Hera spacecraft's flyby of Mars and its dainty moon Deimos.
The European Space Agency ’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to visit a now-famous binary asteroid system, but it’s doing some sightseeing as it goes. Hera took athe time-lapse video a “rare view of the red planet and its enigmatic moon” in a release on April 15.
Hera’s Deimos observations follow a similar path. Deimos is the smaller of the red planet’s two moons. It’s only 9 miles wide at its broadest point. It resembles a misshapen potato. Mars’s other moon Phobos gets a brief cameo at the end of the video. Phobos looks like a tiny sunlit curve in the distance. It measures 17 miles at its widest.
. In 2022, DART crashed into Dimorphos, a small moonlet in orbit around the larger asteroid Didymos. NASA wanted to test the sci-fi concept of altering an asteroid’s path by smashing into it. It worked.
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