While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, the ESA said. Deimos is about 15,000 miles from Mars.

The operators of the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft were bewitched by the sci-fi aesthetics of the pictures. “We were waiting with impatience to get these images,” said Patrick ...