Megatsunami swept over Mars after massive asteroid hit the Red …
Dec 2, 2022 · Its large size suggests the cosmic impact that dug the hole itself was big, similar in scale to the one from a 6-mile-wide (10 km) asteroid that struck near what is now the town of …
Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's …
3 days ago · The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars. Europe's Hera mission, on its way …
NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars
Oct 27, 2022 · NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last Dec. 24, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of …
Mars is an asteroid punching bag, NASA data reveals | Space
Jun 28, 2024 · Meteorite impacts pepper Mars at a rate up to 10 times more frequent than previous estimates, according to two new research papers that identified the seismic shock …
Megatsunami swept over Mars after devastating asteroid strike
Dec 6, 2022 · NASA’s Viking 1 lander may have touched down on the site of a massive megatsunami. Around 3.4 billion years ago, when Mars was a warm, wet world, an asteroid …
Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon …
2 days ago · A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon …
Colossal 'planet killer' asteroid sparked mega-tsunami on Mars, …
Dec 2, 2022 · A newly discovered impact crater on Mars was likely left by an enormous asteroid that slammed into the Red Planet around 3.4 billion years ago and may have triggered an 800 …
NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars
Sep 19, 2022 · NASA’s InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. Not only do these represent the first impacts detected by …
Video Shows Mars and Deimos Close Up During ESA’s Hera Flyby
1 day ago · An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the …
ESA - Hera asteroid mission spies Mars’s Deimos moon
2 days ago · Deimos crossing Mars. Moving at 9 km/s relative to Mars, Hera was able to image Deimos from as close as 1000 km away, surveying the less-seen opposite side of the tidally …