{"id":23964,"date":"2025-03-14T08:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23964"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:35:41","slug":"video-shows-mars-and-deimos-close-up-during-esas-hera-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23964","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows Mars and Deimos Close Up During ESA\u2019s Hera Flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small Martian moons.<\/p>\n

The operators of the European Space Agency\u2019s Hera spacecraft<\/a> were bewitched by the sci-fi aesthetics of the pictures.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were waiting with impatience to get these images,\u201d said Patrick Michel<\/a>, the principal investigator for Hera, during a Thursday news conference at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. When the first shots of the moon appeared, many of the Hera team members burst into cheers. \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen Deimos in that way,\u201d Dr. Michel said.<\/p>\n

Navigators managed to fly Hera about 600 miles above Deimos, a craggy moon just nine miles long. The pass shows the object in remarkable detail \u2014 a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian desert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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During the news conference, Ian Carnelli<\/a>, the Hera project manager, was misty-eyed. \u201cI\u2019m going to get emotional,\u201d he said. \u201cThe excitement was such that we didn\u2019t get any sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hera was using Mars in what is known as a gravity assist, both accelerating the spacecraft and adjusting its flight path. But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian flyby and use it to test the mechanical eyes that will allow Hera to study the asteroid it is targeting, Dimorphos.<\/p>\n

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The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small Martian moons.The operators of the European Space Agency\u2019s Hera spacecraft were bewitched by the sci-fi aesthetics of the pictures.\u201cWe were waiting with impatience to get these images,\u201d said Patrick Michel, the principal investigator for Hera, during a Thursday news conference at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. When the first shots of the moon appeared, many of the Hera team members burst into cheers. \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen Deimos in that way,\u201d Dr. Michel said.Navigators managed to fly Hera about 600 miles above Deimos, a craggy moon just nine miles long. The pass shows the object in remarkable detail \u2014 a small island gliding above the crater-scarred Martian desert.During the news conference, Ian Carnelli, the Hera project manager, was misty-eyed. \u201cI\u2019m going to get emotional,\u201d he said. \u201cThe excitement was such that we didn\u2019t get any sleep.\u201dHera was using Mars in what is known as a gravity assist, both accelerating the spacecraft and adjusting its flight path. But its mission operators also wanted to take advantage of the Martian flyby and use it to test the mechanical eyes that will allow Hera to study the asteroid it is targeting, Dimorphos.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23966,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23967,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions\/23967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}