The first space security mission of the European space agency, ESA.

In 2024, the HERA spacecraft was launched, which is the first space security mission of the European space agency, as it is called, it will approach just 5,000 km from the surface of Mars and 300 km from one of the most enigmatic Moons in the solar system Deimos, the second moon of Mars, the one that is furthest away.

During this flyby, already close to Mars, Hera will make observations of both Mars and Deimos, Deimos is like a small floating island 12.4 km in diameter. Then Hera will turn its high-gain antenna towards the Earth to transmit the data it has collected. The next day, Thursday, March 13, a press conference was held at the mission control center in Darmstadt in Germany where they showed the images and data.

In this illustration we see the dimorphic asteroid because the objective of this ship is not to study Mars, the objective of this ship is to travel to Didimos, the binary asteroid that is composed of Didimos which is an asteroid of about 640 meters in diameter and dimorphs a small asteroid of about 160 meters in diameter that was impacted by NASA's Dart mission and the ship's objective was to get there and see what happened how it became dimorphic after the impressive blow that the ship gave it NASA Dart.

I say impressive because it is known that it managed to move that asteroid, it moved it from its normal orbit around the larger asteroid, so we do have the capacity to deflect an asteroid, by the way, the important thing about the mission right now when passing through Mars is because it will help collect data for another very interesting mission, an exploration mission of the Martian moons that will be launched next year. The MMX is a joint international mission led by the Japanese space agency, in collaboration with NASA, the French space agency, the center German aerospace and the European space agency.

Their objective is therefore to collect information from the two Martian moons and land on Phobos to collect a sample of Phobos and bring it to Earth for analysis. Phobos is also another of the most intriguing moons in the solar system, it is larger than Deimos, it has 26.8 km in its largest diameter exactly by 21 km by 18.4 km. It is irregular, but it is enormous, orbiting only about 6000 km from the Martian surface.

Phobos would be ideal, it would be a kind of space station ideal for Mars, in fact in some projects and science fiction novels Phobos is proposed as a kind of exchange station, the ships that arrive from Earth will arrive at Phobos and from there they go down to Mars it would be ideal for that function, except that it has a small problem and that is that Phobos is going to end up crashing into Mars or disintegrating before, one of the two things, it is believed that it would be within 2 to 4 million years, but it turns out that a couple of years ago NASA released a report that said that Phobos was already breaking up, so it could be that it disintegrated sooner, which is why this mission is interesting.

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