UAE spacecraft captures unprecedented images of Martian moon Deimos.

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The UAE's Hope probe has captured detailed images of the far side of the Martian moon Deimos, suggesting it may have formed from debris left over from an impact on Mars, rather than being a captured asteroid. The spacecraft's three science instruments observed Deimos during the encounter, with the probe's camera recording stunning views of the moon passing across the sunlit side of Mars far below. The flyby with Deimos was the closest any spacecraft has been to the moon since NASA's Viking 2 orbiter in the 1970s.

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