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Mars, European Space Agency and Asteroid

Asteroid probe snaps rare images of Martian moon

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping around 600 pictures, including rare ones of Deimos.

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Mysterious Mars moon captured in unprecedented images by space probe

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)

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.

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NASA: Asteroid 2024 YR4 not a threat to Earth. But the moon is still in the region of uncertainty

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

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Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

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Why do the odds of asteroids hitting Earth keep fluctuating?

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

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Astronomers watching 'city-killer' asteroid to determine chance of striking Earth in 2032

According to estimates, the asteroid, called 2024 YR4, had the highest chance of any asteroid to hit Earth in ... the ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit the Moon, raising concerns for future lunar missions; here’s what NASA says

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

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Simple Science: Asteroid hurtling toward Earth changes course

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

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How "asteroid detectives" are protecting Earth from potentially dangerous impacts: "Find them before they find you"

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to ... there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet ...

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