ESA's Hera Mission Reveals New View of Asteroid Didymos
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission has captured an unprecedented close-up image of asteroid Didymos, showing a different face from what NASA's DART camera displayed before impact. The image, taken from about 60 kilometers away, reveals details such as large rocky blocks, craters, and possible surface marks. Didymos, part of a binary asteroid system with its moon Dimorphos, does not pose a threat to Earth but has been used in planetary defense tests. The Hera mission aims to investigate the effects of NASA's DART impact experiment, which successfully altered Dimorphos' orbit in 2022.
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