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Happy birthday, Hera! 🎂🛰️ ESA's Hera captured its first glimpse of the binary asteroid Didymos & Dimorphos. Hera will study the impact from the NASA DART mission on Dimorphos to study planetary defence, with JAXA’s #TIRI thermal infrared camera helping reveal surface properties
ESA Operations@esaoperations · Oct 7🚨🚨🚨On its second birthday in space, ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence has spotted its asteroid destination for the first time, from an approximate distance of 236 500 km away!
The Didymos system is actually two asteroids, seen as a single pixel for now
The Didymos system is actually two asteroids, seen as a single pixel for now
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