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ESA's Hera Probe to Inspect DART's Asteroid Impact Site
Original: ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike
ESA's Hera spacecraft is set to rendezvous with the asteroid Dimorphos and survey the crater left by NASA's DART mission, which deliberately struck the moonlet in 2022 to test planetary defense. Hera will study the impact's effects and Dimorphos's composition in detail. Discussion is focused on what the mission's close-up data will reveal about humanity's first attempt to deflect an asteroid.
Why now: Interest in planetary defense is high as Hera nears its rendezvous with the asteroid NASA deliberately hit to test asteroid deflection.
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- ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike · rbanffy · 72
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