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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to perform large backward rolls to improve radar observations of Mars' subsurface water-ice, enhancing its ability to explore regions previously out of reach, which is vital for future human missions and understanding Mars' climate history.
ESA's Hera mission has successfully completed its first deep-space maneuvers, adjusting its trajectory for a gravity assist at Mars in March 2025. This maneuver will help Hera reach the Didymos binary asteroid system faster, where it will study the effects of NASA's DART mission's asteroid deflection experiment. The Mars flyby will also allow Hera to conduct opportunistic science by closely observing Mars' moon Deimos.