Thursday, March 13, 2025

Images from Hera’s Mars flyby (Official broadcast)

On 12 March 2025 ESA’s Hera mission comes to within 5000 km of the surface of the red planet and 300 km of Mars’s more distant and enigmatic moon Deimos. 
  • During this flyby Hera is performing observations of both Mars and the city-sized Deimos. 
  • Hera then needs to swing its High Gain Antenna back to Earth to transmit its data home. 
The next day, on Thursday 13 March, these images will be premiered by Hera’s science team from ESA’s ESOC mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany, explaining what they reveal, during our public webcast starting at 11:50 CET. 
 
The team are being joined by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and renowned science fiction writer Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary, as well as a surprise special guest!

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