The mission's flyby was used as a gravity assist to its final destination at the binary asteroid ... the significantly warmer surface of Deimos versus Mars below it. This moon lacks an atmosphere and ...

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.

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very ... Hera was using Mars in what is known as a gravity assist, both accelerating the spacecraft and adjusting its flight path.

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars ... captured the images while conducting a flyby, also known as a gravity assist: a maneuver that harnesses a planet’s gravity to accelerate ...

The mission’s flyby was used as a gravity assist to its final destination at ... sense of an object’s mineral makeup. The martian moon Deimos appears as a dark egg shape above the blue-colored ...