Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Tiny, potato-shaped Deimos!

 

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From just 100 kilometers away, the UAE’s *Al-Amal* (Hope) probe captured this breathtaking close-up: Tiny, potato-shaped Deimos floats starkly in the foreground against the vast, rust-red face of Mars. One of the rarest views in the Solar System—shot by the Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft as it skimmed past Mars’s smaller moon.