What would Deimos look like to an astronaut in space around Mars? None of Hera's instruments are equivalent to the naked human eye, but here is the science team's first attempt. The 'saddle' between two peaks of Deimos shows up as a shadow
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To make this match the images / video clips from the press release I had to rotate and flip it - this is now the correct orientation, with Martian north up, right?
What spatial resolution on the surface of Deimos can we hope for in the end, after processing, dithered stacking of frames and so on - and how would that translate on the asteroid duo?
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It’s tiny as far as moons go. 🤔😊