Hera Asteroid Probe Spots Mysterious Martian Moon During Flyby
The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the less-seen side of Mars’ smaller, tidally-locked moon as it orbited its home planet.
The asteroid was faint, requiring the use of large ... team “took 12 200-second long exposures in the Red band (a specific range of wavelengths that correspond to visible red light or slightly ...
An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...
NASA has issued an earthly arrival date for an asteroid valued at a staggering £10,000,000,000,000,000,000. The government ...
For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...
It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...
GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...
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