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.
A city-killer asteroid is currently on NASA’s radar because it has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. However, new reports suggest that it could hit the Moon instead. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is ...
UNDATED (WKRC) - New reports on Asteroid 2024 YR4, originally discovered in December and determined to have a chance of colliding with the Earth, stated that it has a chance of hitting the Moon ...
THE MOON could save Earth by blocking a devastating asteroid which is big enough to wipe out a city. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is the size of a football pitch and has a 1-in-43 chance of a catastrophic ...
But according to new calculations, there's an even smaller chance that it might crash into the moon instead. The potentially hazardous asteroid measures an estimated 180 feet (55 meters ...
Now, new calculations by University of Arizona astronomer David Rankin have reportedly found that there is a slim chance of about 0.3 per cent of the 90-metre-wide asteroid crashing onto the Moon.
The moon, however, may not be in the clear. When first discovered in December, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a small but notable chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to information from NASA's ...
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ESA's Hera probe trains its cameras at Mars' moon Deimos | Space photo of the day March 13, 2025ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.
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