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

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

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...