As mentioned, this is not the first probe to explore Deimos. In 1976, NASA’s Viking 2 orbiter got as close as 19 miles above the surface of Deimos, although its cameras and other equipment were ...

Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars, might be a chip off the old block — quite literally. That’s the conclusion drawn by scientists in the United Arab Emirates, whose Hope orbiter ...

That bright sparkle wasn't a morning star beaming from distant space, but something more mysterious — Mars' shiest moon, Deimos. The rover used one of its navigation cameras at a long-exposure ...

Deimos, one of the small moons of Mars, was imaged by the Hope Mars mission from as close as 60 miles (100 km), the closest look yet. The flashy new imagery was released Monday (April 24) as the ...

Hera got as close as 1,000 kilometers, or about 620 miles, to Deimos. It used its various instruments to capture the images, characterize the mineral makeup on the moon and chart surface temperatures.

Phobos is larger than Deimos, with a radius of 11 km, and closer to the Martian surface, a little more than 9,000 km away. By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit ...

But Deimos orbits much farther out, at a distance of some 14,500 miles (23,500 km), and it circles the Red Planet almost as fast as Mars rotates. Both moons are tidally locked to Mars, so they ...

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing unprecedented images of Mars' lesser-known moon, Deimos.. Mars has two moons ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars's two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day (sol) of the mission.

The Martian moon Deimos, captured by ESA’s Hera spacecraft during its gravity-assist flyby on March 12. The moon appears dark, framed by the brighter planet Mars behind it, in this monochromatic ...

Deimos measures only 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) across. Where is it? Deimos completes one orbit around Mars every 30 hours and 17 minutes at an average distance of 14,576 miles (23,458 kilometers ...