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En Route to Asteroid Collision, HERA Snaps Rare Images of Martian Moon


On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday.

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