A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, 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 ...

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, yesterday. The mission’s flyby was ...

In 2026, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, aiming to explore the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and return samples from Phobos to Earth.

Astronomers used a computer to simulate the orbits of both Phobos and Deimos. The moons of Mars — Phobos and Deimos — are two fragments of what was once a much larger Martian satellite that ...

capturing unprecedented images of Mars' lesser-known moon, Deimos. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, but scientists know relatively little about them, especially the smaller one, Deimos.

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission's gravity-assist flyby of Mars on March 12, 2025.