#Hera's Mars flyby occurred yesterday and today #ESA's live stream revealed images from its closest approach, featuring the far side of the tidally-locked moon #Deimos, and a lot more.
Images and animation are from the live steam.
Recorded live stream (at start of live coverage):
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cHiASEowrio?t=539
#Hera's Hyperscout H hyperspectral imager took this image, shown here in raw form; the Sun's contribution makes Mars appear blue, but that will be later on removed to reveal Mars' spectral response.
The dark spot is Deimos (Δείμος, pronounced [deemos] in modern Greek)
And this is #ESA's animated approach of #Deimos and #Hera from the post:
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀’𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies_Mars_s_Deimos_moon
Images: ESA
That's cute! - Interesting thought is that all of these objects are either on their way out of the gravity well or will be colliding with their host planet: just a matter of time.
@65dBnoise For a moment, I was really confused.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_(moon)#/media/File:Moon_Phobos_Deimos.png
@christianrickert
Yeah, Luna is the 5th larger moon in the solar system and Mars' two are, well, special 
@65dBnoise The artificially colored b&w image on the lower left was accidentally flipped vertically by ESA - here is the correct orientation.
I wonder if @markmccaughrean heard any rumours about getting the raw images on PSA (I’d love to play with them for my series of Potatoes over Mars) I see a lot of potential :)))
@andrealuck @65dBnoise I'm afraid I'm completely out of the loop on Hera matters – it's not a Science Programme mission & thus won't (necessarily) follow the standard PSA processes. That's not to say that it's not a good mission & that there's any bad faith involved at all, just that it's outside the normal flow followed by a science mission.
Alan Fitzsimmons at QUB is involved – he may know. I'll ask.
@markmccaughrean awesome thanks Mark!
@andrealuck Here’s the answer from Alan. I guess since Deimos may be a captured asteroid, they consider that data as “science” & will give themselves some time under a proprietary period to work on that first. The Mars alone images should come sooner though.
@markmccaughrean
Noted. Good to know they will be released at some point :) I appreciate you looking into it for me, thank you so much!