First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one
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The European spacecraft "Hera" separated Dimorphos from Gemini for the first time, four years after the collision deliberately caused by NASA to test asteroid deflection.
Soon we will learn how the impact of the dart probe changed the asteroid Dimorphos. ESA probe Hera has now recorded it separately for the first time.
First glance at two instead of one: The European space probe Hera photographed its targets Didymos and Dimorphos for the first time as separate light points. Although the smaller asteroid moon is hardly more than one pixel in size on the image, the image marks an important step towards the planned investigation of an asteroid whose orbit was specifically changed four years ago. [...] The article Space probe Hera detects asteroid pairs Didymos an…
First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence has resolved its two target asteroids separately for the very first time, revealing the binary nature of the Didymos system, currently some 197 million km away from Earth.
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