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Europe’s Hera spacecraft aces self-driving test at Mars before asteroid missionHera spacecraft successfully tested its autonomous surface feature tracking system during a high-speed flyby of Mars, marking ...
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.
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 ...
Hera will also collect information about Didymos, the asteroid that Dimorphos orbits around. Hera is expected to reach the Didymos in December 2026, the ESA said. "This has been the Hera team's ...
New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...
An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red ...
On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...
Credit: ESA Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of ...
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