Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
1/n Martian Potato1 🧵
Phobos Over Mars: a time lapse from 2007 to 2021
Full size & info: flic.kr/p/2qREua9 🧪🔭
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
8 frames, captured by @esa.int Mars Express. It's stabilized on Phobos (Todd crater) to play with the disorienting effect.
All images below ⬇️
Phobos Over Mars: a time lapse from 2007 to 2021
Full size & info: flic.kr/p/2qREua9 🧪🔭
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY
8 frames, captured by @esa.int Mars Express. It's stabilized on Phobos (Todd crater) to play with the disorienting effect.
All images below ⬇️
March 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#Mars spotted by our #HeraMission, as the mission draws closer for a flyby of the planet later today.
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This is #HeraMission's view of Mars acquired yesterday, at 1.07 million km from the red planet, hurtling towards it at 9 km/s. The north pole and other features clearly visible - closest approach comes at 13:51 CET today, images unveiled tomorrow! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
#Mars spotted by our #HeraMission, as the mission draws closer for a flyby of the planet later today.
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BTW the #HeraMission afterparty includes a Space Shuttle. 🔭🛰️
October 8, 2024 at 12:41 AM
BTW the #HeraMission afterparty includes a Space Shuttle. 🔭🛰️
This is #HeraMission's view of Mars acquired yesterday, at 1.07 million km from the red planet, hurtling towards it at 9 km/s. The north pole and other features clearly visible - closest approach comes at 13:51 CET today, images unveiled tomorrow! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#HeraMission @operations.esa.int after Mars flyby! 👋👋
March 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
#HeraMission @operations.esa.int after Mars flyby! 👋👋
📽️After five months in the darkness between planets, #HeraMission flies past Mars TOMORROW - while imaging the surface and the enigmatic moon Deimos, as a try-out of its instruments before reaching the Didymos binary. Then, this Thursday, see these images unveiled live! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
March 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📽️After five months in the darkness between planets, #HeraMission flies past Mars TOMORROW - while imaging the surface and the enigmatic moon Deimos, as a try-out of its instruments before reaching the Didymos binary. Then, this Thursday, see these images unveiled live! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔴 Live now! Watch #HeraMission 's gravity-assist #Mars & #Deimos flyby images unveiled live 👉 www.youtube.com/live/cHiASEo...
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Images from Hera’s Mars flyby (Official broadcast)
YouTube video by European Space Agency, ESA
www.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🔴 Live now! Watch #HeraMission 's gravity-assist #Mars & #Deimos flyby images unveiled live 👉 www.youtube.com/live/cHiASEo...
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🛰️🔴 #HeraMission de l'ESA à 2,1 millions de km de #Mars, avant son survol rapproché le 12 mars
March 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🛰️🔴 #HeraMission de l'ESA à 2,1 millions de km de #Mars, avant son survol rapproché le 12 mars
This Wednesday #HeraMission flies by Mars🔴& its moon Deimos🪨. On Thursday join a star-studded livestream with'The Martian' writer @andyweirauthor1.bsky.social, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst plus another v. special guest as its flyby images are unveiled! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
March 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This Wednesday #HeraMission flies by Mars🔴& its moon Deimos🪨. On Thursday join a star-studded livestream with'The Martian' writer @andyweirauthor1.bsky.social, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst plus another v. special guest as its flyby images are unveiled! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Very cool! #HeraMission is a #Martian moons mission as well as an #asteroid mission! (Although maybe those are the same thing, who knows?! 😛) #Planetsci
THIS IS SO EXCITING! The #HeraMission will use Mars gravity to be launched towards the #Didymos system. Ian Carnelli informed that in that maneuver will pass just 300 km from Deimos, just allowing unprecedent hyperspectral imagery of the #Mars satellite.
Here we go #Mars, and #Deimos! 🛰️🤩
#PlanetSci
Here we go #Mars, and #Deimos! 🛰️🤩
#PlanetSci
February 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Very cool! #HeraMission is a #Martian moons mission as well as an #asteroid mission! (Although maybe those are the same thing, who knows?! 😛) #Planetsci
October 7, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Missed the #HeraMission #Mars flyby press conference earlier but the images are fantastic! #PlanetSci
What would Deimos look like to an astronaut in space around Mars? None of Hera's instruments are equivalent to the naked human eye, but here is the science team's first attempt. The 'saddle' between two peaks of Deimos shows up as a shadow
March 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Missed the #HeraMission #Mars flyby press conference earlier but the images are fantastic! #PlanetSci
Liftoff #HeraMission!
View from SpaceX hangar.
View from SpaceX hangar.
October 7, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Liftoff #HeraMission!
View from SpaceX hangar.
View from SpaceX hangar.
On 12 March, our #HeraMission will pass by #Mars en route to the #Didymos binary #asteroid system.
Join our webcast on Thursday 13 March, starting at 11:50 CET. We will share with you the incoming images from Hera’s flyby. Details below 👇
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Join our webcast on Thursday 13 March, starting at 11:50 CET. We will share with you the incoming images from Hera’s flyby. Details below 👇
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March 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
On 12 March, our #HeraMission will pass by #Mars en route to the #Didymos binary #asteroid system.
Join our webcast on Thursday 13 March, starting at 11:50 CET. We will share with you the incoming images from Hera’s flyby. Details below 👇
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Join our webcast on Thursday 13 March, starting at 11:50 CET. We will share with you the incoming images from Hera’s flyby. Details below 👇
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🔴 Our #HeraMission just flew by Mars, using the planet’s gravity to speed up towards its target asteroids. Wondering what it was like for the mission engineers to assemble Hera? Make one with LEGO 🧱 – choose your favourite model and get building! 🔨 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🔴 Our #HeraMission just flew by Mars, using the planet’s gravity to speed up towards its target asteroids. Wondering what it was like for the mission engineers to assemble Hera? Make one with LEGO 🧱 – choose your favourite model and get building! 🔨 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
#HeraMission
Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission’s 12 March 2025 gravity-assist flyby of Mars.
Credit: ESA/JAXA 🧪🔭 #Mars
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission’s 12 March 2025 gravity-assist flyby of Mars.
Credit: ESA/JAXA 🧪🔭 #Mars
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
#HeraMission
Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission’s 12 March 2025 gravity-assist flyby of Mars.
Credit: ESA/JAXA 🧪🔭 #Mars
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager images acquired during the Hera mission’s 12 March 2025 gravity-assist flyby of Mars.
Credit: ESA/JAXA 🧪🔭 #Mars
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
📽️Why does #HeraMission need autonomous surface feature tracking for self-driving, recently tested at🔴Mars? When Hera ventures closest to its target asteroid, it will have no other way of navigating: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📽️Why does #HeraMission need autonomous surface feature tracking for self-driving, recently tested at🔴Mars? When Hera ventures closest to its target asteroid, it will have no other way of navigating: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Heading to Thessaloniki for a #HeraMission meeting. I’ve got my Greek phrase book ready to go.
May 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Heading to Thessaloniki for a #HeraMission meeting. I’ve got my Greek phrase book ready to go.
Any more questions about our #HeraMission Mars flyby? Why not ask our mission AI itself - the Hera Space Companion is ready to talk to you directly, featuring a brand new voice function! hera.space
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Any more questions about our #HeraMission Mars flyby? Why not ask our mission AI itself - the Hera Space Companion is ready to talk to you directly, featuring a brand new voice function! hera.space
#HeraMission has a voice now! Thanks to developers at Terra Mater Studios, impactAI and @microsoft.com, you can now talk to Hera - curious how she feels after having recently flown by Mars and its moon Deimos? Take a listen 🔊
Have a chat with Hera Space Companion here 🤖 👉 hera.space
Have a chat with Hera Space Companion here 🤖 👉 hera.space
March 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#HeraMission has a voice now! Thanks to developers at Terra Mater Studios, impactAI and @microsoft.com, you can now talk to Hera - curious how she feels after having recently flown by Mars and its moon Deimos? Take a listen 🔊
Have a chat with Hera Space Companion here 🤖 👉 hera.space
Have a chat with Hera Space Companion here 🤖 👉 hera.space
The #HeraMission and also the #DARTMission.
Humans changed an 🪨asteroid - now we find out how!
Especially for Asteroid Day,🎥watch the full story so far of our Hera mission 🛰️, on its way thru deep space to probe the first Solar System body transformed by human action 💥: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Especially for Asteroid Day,🎥watch the full story so far of our Hera mission 🛰️, on its way thru deep space to probe the first Solar System body transformed by human action 💥: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Humans changed an asteroid. Now we find out how
www.esa.int
June 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The #HeraMission and also the #DARTMission.
And now we’re heading to the #HeraMission launch afterparty! 🔭🛰️ #PlanetaryScience
(And then getting the hell out of Dodge tomorrow morning)
(And then getting the hell out of Dodge tomorrow morning)
October 7, 2024 at 9:01 PM
And now we’re heading to the #HeraMission launch afterparty! 🔭🛰️ #PlanetaryScience
(And then getting the hell out of Dodge tomorrow morning)
(And then getting the hell out of Dodge tomorrow morning)
A successful deep-space manoeuvre has put ESA’s Hera spacecraft on course for arrival at the Didymos binary asteroid system later this year!
At Didymos, Hera will help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable technique for protecting Earth 🛡️🌍
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
At Didymos, Hera will help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable technique for protecting Earth 🛡️🌍
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous
A successful deep-space manoeuvre has put ESA’s Hera spacecraft on course for its rendezvous with the Didymos binary asteroid system later this year.
www.esa.int
March 17, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I am not eligible to submit to this contest, but perhaps you are! 🧪🔭🛰️🥔
#Hera #HeraMission #DARTMission
#Hera #HeraMission #DARTMission
An asteroid killed the dinosaurs because they didn’t have a space agency – so ESA’s Hera asteroid mission has a dino mascot (also aboard the spacecraft in real life!).
But our dino needs a name – that’s where you come in!
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
But our dino needs a name – that’s where you come in!
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
September 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
I am not eligible to submit to this contest, but perhaps you are! 🧪🔭🛰️🥔
#Hera #HeraMission #DARTMission
#Hera #HeraMission #DARTMission