By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

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.

For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins of Phobos and its twin, Deimos ... Space Agency (ESA) orbiter that has studied Mars and its moons since 2003, these 300-odd images exquisitely ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to ... The resulting rocky debris will probably form a temporary ring around Mars. The first close-up images of the martian moons were ...

the European Space Agency (ESA) captured a rare photo of its second moon - but what do we know about it? It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of ...

Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission, launched in 2003, have already provided data and images ... on Phobos or Deimos to date. Little is known about their geological, ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos ... by the Japanese space agency, JAXA, which can help characterize the texture and ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday. Europe's HERA mission is aiming to ...