ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...

Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission's gravity-assist flyby of Mars on March 12, 2025. | Credit: ESA ...

The larger moon, Phobos, tops out at about 17 miles across at its widest point, and Deimos is only about half that size. ... unless Mars and Deimos built themselves from the same material.

Deimos, the smaller of the two moons of Mars, might be a chip off the old block — quite literally. ... How the moon would have formed from Mars, however, is not yet clear.

The European Space Agency's Hera mission flew by Mars and its lesser-known moon Deimos on March 12, 2025, for a critical gravity assist for its journey. Credit: ESA.

Illustration of Mars on the left, Mars' moon Phobos near the center, and Mars' moon Deimos on the far right. NASA 2023-04-25T18:28:41Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in ...

Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, is a subject of fascination for astronomers. Though significantly smaller than Earth, ...

Composite image of Mars’ moon Deimos as it orbits the planet taken by the Hope probe. Image: Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre For more than two years, the UAE’s Hope probe has been orbiting ...

Deimos is tidally locked with Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet, so probes near Mars see only one side of the small moon, too — that is, until Hope arrived on the scene.

Mars has been a hotbed for space exploration over the past several decades. However, just recently we got our closest look at the Martian moons Deimos and Phobos in images captured by the Emirates ...

The moon has a mean radius of about 6.2 kilometers (3.85 miles) and goes around Mars every 30.3 hours or so. This truly stunning image is just the cherry on top of the observations.

Deimos is an irregular, lumpy and small moon, only 7 to 9 miles in diameter, appearing more like the asteroids of the belt between Mars and Jupiter than any of the Jovian moons or the Moon of Earth.